Uraiyur (also spelt Woraiyur) pronunciationⓘ is a locality in Tiruchirapalli city in Tamil Nadu, India.

Inscriptions and rock edicts of Ashoka and the Satavahanas describe Urayur as "the citadel and centre of the Cholas".

[citation needed] His notable works include Ratnakarandaka Shravakachara, Aaptamimamsa and Swambhu Stotra.

The Cholas were one of the four great Tamil dynasties; (Pallavas, Cheras and Pandyas are the other three) who ruled over the Tamil country in South India, the Konkan coast, Deccan Plateau and during the peak reached beyond the Narmada up to the Ganges – Damodar delta from early antiquity.

The myth appears on a Chola square copper coin of the Sangam Age assigned to ca.