A rare variant bronze statue of saint-poet Thirumangai Alwar will be repatriated from Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (UK) to Tamil Nadu.
It was stolen from the Soundararaja Perumal Temple in Kumbakonam between 1957 and 1967.
Thirumangai Alvar was born in the 8th century, and one of the 12 Alvar saints of South India known for their affiliation with the Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism.