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Kanyakumari is a town in Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu state, India. Located at  the southernmost tip of the Indian Peninsula, it is also known by its former name  Cape Comorin. The closest major cities are Nagercoil, the administrative  headquarters of Kanyakumari district, (22 km) and Thiruvananthapuram,  the capital of Kerala (85 km). Kanyakumari takes its name from the Kumari Amman or Kanyakumari Temple,  situated in the town, on the sea-shore, the very confluence of the three water-bodies  - the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Mannar and the Indian Ocean. In his work on ancient  India, Ptolemy had identified Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin) along with the Gulf of  Mannar as a center for pearl fishery. He also identifies Korkai, a place to the east of  Kanyakumari as an emporium of pearl trade, also Travancore Census 1931 says that  Paravars ruled that Coast and built the temple for their reverence to Sea Goddess

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