Samanatham is the name of a panchayat village in the Madurai district of Tamil Nadu, India. It comes under the Thiruparankundram block. The word Samanatham means "the system or the practice of the Shamanas (Jains)".
See also Impalement of the Jains in Madurai, a Shaivite legend about the killing of around 8000 Jains by the Pandyan king Koon Pandiyan at Samanatham
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