Suthamalli

Suthamalli is a village in the Udayarpalayam taluk of Ariyalur district, Tamil Nadu, India.

Suthamalli
village
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Ariyalur
Population  (2001)
• Total	3,922
Languages
• Official	Tamil
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	TN-
Coastline	0 kilometres (0 mi)
Sex ratio	1020 ♂/♀
Literacy	55.61%

Demographics

As per the 2001 census, Suthamalli had a total population of 3922 with 1932 males and 1990 females.^[1]

Temples

Historical Sundaresvarar Temple and Varadaraja Perumal Temple are located here.

Idol theft

The Chola-era bronzes belonging to both the temples were stolen sometime before 2008.^[2] The Idol Wing of the Tamil Nadu Criminal Investigation Department (IW-CID) has traced some of them to the United States.^[3]

• Varadaraja Perumal Temple

S.No.	Deity	Stolen Idol traced to	Country	Current status	More Details
1	Vishnu			Recovered	[4]
2	Sridevi			Recovered	[4]
3	Bhudevi			Recovered	[5]
4	Chakratalvar			Recovered	[5]
5				Unknown

• Sundaresvarar Temple

S.No.	Deity	As named in Idol Wing report	Stolen Idol traced to	Country	Current status	More Details
1	Nataraja	Natarajan[6]	ICE	United States	Unknown	[7][8][9]
2	Uma Parameshvari	Sivagami Amman / Thani Amman[6]	ICE	United States	Unknown	[8][10]
3	Parvati	Parvathy / Thani Amman[6]	Private collector	Belgium	Unknown	[11]
4	Parvati	Sivagami Amman [6]	ICE	United States	Recovered	[8][12][13]
5	Trishul	Deepalakshmi / Asthiradevar [6]	ICE	United States	Unknown	[12]
6	Somaskanda	Somaskandar [6]			Unknown
7	Kartikeya	Murugar / Subramaniyar [6]	ICE	United States	Unknown	[8][14]
8	Valli	Valli [6]			Unknown
9	Chandikeshwara	N/A	ICE	United States	Unknown	[12][15]