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Guruvayur also written as Guruvayoor, is a municipal temple town in Thrissur District, of Kerala State in India.it is suburban town of thrissur city. It houses the famous Guruvayur Sri Krishna Temple. It is located at a distance of 494 km from Bengaluru, 292 km from the state capital Trivandrum, 645 km from Chennai and 93 km from Kochi. 

Legends state that Lord Krishna asked 2 sages to take the idol from his temple in Dwarka while the city was being destroyed and establish it in Kerala. The idol of lord krishna was brought by Vayu deva and brhaspathi and was placed in guruvayur. The name guruvayur is a merge of both their names (""guru"" brahaspathi and ""vayu"" deva.[citation needed] In the 14th century, Tamil literature 'Kokasandesam', references about a place called Kuruvayur is made. As early as the 16th century, many references are seen about Kuruvayur. In ancient Dravidic, Kuruvai means sea, hence the village on the coast may be called Kuruvayur. According to historian Professor K. V. Krishna Iyer, the Brahmins had begun to come and settle at Kodungallur during the period of Chandra Gupta Maurya (321-297 BC).[citation needed]

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