Complex sentence: In his childhood he spent hours playing as any other child of that age would do, but at the same time Dharmalinga Swamigal spent many hours at the nearby "Siva" temple called "Thanthondripuram".
Split into simpler sentences: In his childhood he spent hours playing as any other child of that age would do. But at the same time Dharmalinga Swamigal spent many hours at the nearby "Siva" temple called "Thanthondripuram".