SREE KAMALAMBIKA SAMETHA THIAGARAJAR, THIRUVARUR
ஸ்ரீகமலாம்பிகா உடனுறை தியாகராஜர் கோவில், திருவாரூர்.
Thiruvarur is very well connected from Tiruchirapalli, Thanjavur from the west and Nagapattinam and Karaikal from the east by road and rail. The central bus stand and Railway station are very near and one can switch over with both bus and train as required. Thiruvarur Thiagarajar temple is considered as one of the important temples of Tamilnadu with the stories connecting Lord Vishnu with both Vanmeeganathar and Thiagarajar. Goddess Kamalambika sits in a yoga pose with ganga and crescent moon in her head similar to the lord. It is one of the very big temples with 9 Rajagopurams, 80 Vimanas, 13 mandapams, 3 prakaras and 15 theerthams- also has the uniqueness of 365 lingas and 86 vinayaka Idols and 24 temples within temple.
Abhishekam is not done to the main deity Thiagarajar but to emerald Shiva Lingam known as Veedhi Vidanga Lingam at 8.30 am, 11 am and 7pm each day. The emerald lingam is then placed in a silver box with flowers and kept in another outer silver box and locked in the presence of the officials and kept near the deity sree Thiagarjar. People worship Thiagaraja's face here and go to a place Vilamal, 3 kms away for the Patha Darshan.
Maragatha Lingam
The presiding deity in the temple is Vanmeega Nathar (Puttridankondaar- (புற்றிடங்கொண்டார்). Lord Vishnu and other Devas wanted to conduct a Yagna at Gurukshetra and they decided the one who did without tiring the Yagna for a longer time is the one who is greater among them. Lord Vishnu won and he got agankaara because of that and Lord Siva wanted to teach him a lesson and manifested as a Bow from the Homa gundam. Lord Vishnu took the bow and went after the Devas and reached this Sthalam as Paraasaththypuram. With the Goddess blessings, his energy sapped and he rested his head on the Bow by placing the bow on the ground. As he rested, Devas as guided by Guru took the form of ants underneath the Bow and slowly eroded the bow and thus the bow straightened and cut of Thirumal's head and Lord Siva appeared in the anthill as Vanmeeganathar or Puttridankondaar. Devas prayed him and asked for protection and Lord Siva told the Devas to place the head. Thirumal and other devas prayed here Lord Siva and thus goes the Sthala purana for Vanmeeganathar.
Goddess Neelothbalambal blesses the devotees from a separate sannidhi and seen with a friend of her holding Lord Muruga on her shoulders and the goddess touching the head of Lord Muruga. In this sannidhi, the sanctum also has the palliyarai. There are separate sannidhis in the temple for - Sree Achaleswar, Sree Kamalambal, Sree Neelothbalambal, Sree Raghukala Rowdra Durgai, Sree Runavimochanar, Sree Viswakarmeswarar, Sree Dakshinamurthy, Sree Anantheeswarar, Sree Siddhiswarar, Sree hayagreeswarar, Sree Dakshinewswarar, Sree Annamaleswarar, Sree Varuneswarar, Sree Ottu Thiagesar, Sree Pulasthiaratcheswarar, Sree Pulasthiya Brahmeswarar, Sree Bhakhtheswarar, Sree Vilwatheeswarar and Sree Pathaleswarar. There are also temples for Lingas preyed by Thulasiraja and Devendran.
Sree Kamalambal temple is a Gnanasakthi Peetam. She has the atcharas (உயிரெழுத்துக்கள்) as the rightside peetam and Saraswathi as her left peetam. As a Srividyai amsam, the Utthishta Ganapthy also is in this sannidhi. Goddess is on the third prakara on the Northeast towards Esanya. As said earlier, the goddes is seen with Ganga in the head and crescent moon similar to the lord. Goddess is having the flower on the right hand and keeping her left hand in the hip and in sitting in a yogasana pose. Hayagreeva, Guru of Saraswathi has prayed here. She is in the form of Lalitha Sahasranama here. The Nandhi in front of the lord thiagara is in a standing posture.
Sree Kaalambal sametha Sree Thiagarajaswamy
The legend of Lord Thiagraja here is connected with Lord Vishnu and Thirumal wanted to progeny and to have a son and requested the lord here and was in tapas. Against all odds of weather, thirumal continued his tapas and Lord appeared before him and Thirumal expressed his wish and Lord blessed him for that. But Lord Vishnu did not pay obesiance to the left half of Lord Siva, Sree Umamaheswari. She cursed Lord Vishnu that even he had a son, he would not live long. Lord Vishnu surprised by this, made Lord Siva, Uma and Kumaran in a single asanam and conducted the pooja for the same. Pleased with the fervent prayers, Lord Siva along with Uma and Kumaran appeared and Lord Vishnu bowed to them all. Uma said to Vishnu her curse will not stop, though the son would burn of fire but would survive that. Vishnu requested that the three should bless the devotees in future staying here so that all people of this world should get benefitted by their darshan. Vishnu was praying the three murthis duly keeping them in his mind and due to the breadth of vishnu, lord siva too had his movements known as Ajaba dance. Asuras surrounded the deva loga and looted and troubled the Devas and Indra reported the same to Lord Vishnu in Parkadal. Vishnu told he would give the Somaskanthar which he considered the supreme in his life and asked him to conduct the poojas regularly to overcome the problem. He got over the problems and was praying the Somaskanthar with love. Thiruvarur was ruled by Musukunthan, who in his earlier janma was a monkey. When the Lord and Devi Uma were in Kailayam, the monkey was putting the vilva leaves which fell on the lord and devi. The happy lord made him to be the king in the next janma, who was Musukunthan.
Musukunthan was friendly with Indra and Indra brought him to devaloga to overcome problems from King valan. Musukunthan on seeing the vigraha of somaskantha was attracted to the moorthy and with bakthi prayed him. Lord then appeared to Musukunthan without Indra knowing about it. Musukunthann also got all the truth of his previous birth and the lord told him to take him to Thiruvarur and conduct pooja there. When Musukunthan about to leave to Thiruvarur, Indra asked him what he wanted to take from him. Musukunthan asked for the Thiagaraja peruman vigraha and Indra said that was given to him by Lord vishnu and he would ask him. Though Lord Vishnu permitted him to give the Vigraha, Indra did not want to give and hence he made identifcal six more vigrahas and asked Musukunthan to take one but Musukunthan identified the original one and thus brought it to Tiruvarur which was installed to the South of Vanmeeganathar on a Hastha Nakshatra day. Indra finding the devotion of Musukunthan gave all the other six vigrahas too and they were installed at the following places: Tirunallar, Nagapattinam, Thirukaravasal, Tiruvanimoor, Vedaranyam and Thirukuvalai. These seven places are called Saptha vithanga sthalams. They are the seven different dance styles of Lord Siva.
There are two Chandikeswarars in the temple. Adhi Chandeswarar as in any other temple and Yama chandikeswarar which is special for this temple. As any one born in Tiruvarur are Sivaganangal and thus Yama said the Lord Siva he had no work in this place, lord asked him to bestow blessings to devotees as Yama Chandikeswarar similar the Lord himself.
The temple car here is very large and when all the decorations are done with the deities weighs around 200 Tonnes. It has modern brake systems. The car festival draws huge crowd from all over Tamilandu and celebrated during the tamil month of Panguni (Mar-April) during the Uthiram festival which starts even from Masi month (Feb-March).
Temple Timings:
5 am to 12 noon
4 pm to 9 pm
ஸ்ரீகமலாம்பிகா உடனுறை தியாகராஜர் கோவில், திருவாரூர்.
Thiruvarur is very well connected from Tiruchirapalli, Thanjavur from the west and Nagapattinam and Karaikal from the east by road and rail. The central bus stand and Railway station are very near and one can switch over with both bus and train as required. Thiruvarur Thiagarajar temple is considered as one of the important temples of Tamilnadu with the stories connecting Lord Vishnu with both Vanmeeganathar and Thiagarajar. Goddess Kamalambika sits in a yoga pose with ganga and crescent moon in her head similar to the lord. It is one of the very big temples with 9 Rajagopurams, 80 Vimanas, 13 mandapams, 3 prakaras and 15 theerthams- also has the uniqueness of 365 lingas and 86 vinayaka Idols and 24 temples within temple.
Abhishekam is not done to the main deity Thiagarajar but to emerald Shiva Lingam known as Veedhi Vidanga Lingam at 8.30 am, 11 am and 7pm each day. The emerald lingam is then placed in a silver box with flowers and kept in another outer silver box and locked in the presence of the officials and kept near the deity sree Thiagarjar. People worship Thiagaraja's face here and go to a place Vilamal, 3 kms away for the Patha Darshan.
Maragatha Lingam
There are 84 vinayagars in the temple. Prominent among them are the Nadukkam theertha vinayagar, Mattru uraitha vinayagar, Mooladhara Ganapthy and Vathabi Ganapathy. Nadukkam theertha vinayagar is prayed for relief from nervous problems. Mattru Uraitha Vinayagar was the one who settled the quality of Gold offered to Sundarar by Lord Siva. He is near the West Gopuram Gate. Many in the locality pray him before purchase of new jewellery. Mooladhara Ganapathy appears reclining and dancing on a blossomed lotus with a five headed serpant nearby. Vathabi Ganapathy blesses the devotees from the first prakara of Lord's shrine. Muthusamy Dikshitar, one of the famous musician trio from this area, sang "Vathabi Ganapathim Bhaje" from this shrine and which was the first song in Carnatic Music Concerts until a few years ago. He also composed on the Goddess of this temple, Sree Kamalambika known as Kamalambiga Navarathna Kritis. Vathabi Ganapthy has a connected story in Periya Puranam. Paranjothi was serving as an army chief under the Pallava King Narasimha Pallavan. He won Pulikesi 2 and took hold of the capital Vathabi. As a mark of his victory, he brought the Vathabi Ganapathy, which has clear identifications belonging to the Chalukya regime. Paranjothi was known as Chiruththonda Nayanar for his devotion to Lord Siva. As one enters through the eastern Gopuram of the temple, the first to have darshan is the Veedhi Vidanga Vinayagar. Vallabha Ganapathy gives darshan from the entrance to the main deity Vanmeeganathar. Uchchishta Ganapathy is in the southern side of Goddess Kamalambal Sannidhi. People pray him as the form of Sree Vidyai.
Vanmeeganathar
The presiding deity in the temple is Vanmeega Nathar (Puttridankondaar- (புற்றிடங்கொண்டார்). Lord Vishnu and other Devas wanted to conduct a Yagna at Gurukshetra and they decided the one who did without tiring the Yagna for a longer time is the one who is greater among them. Lord Vishnu won and he got agankaara because of that and Lord Siva wanted to teach him a lesson and manifested as a Bow from the Homa gundam. Lord Vishnu took the bow and went after the Devas and reached this Sthalam as Paraasaththypuram. With the Goddess blessings, his energy sapped and he rested his head on the Bow by placing the bow on the ground. As he rested, Devas as guided by Guru took the form of ants underneath the Bow and slowly eroded the bow and thus the bow straightened and cut of Thirumal's head and Lord Siva appeared in the anthill as Vanmeeganathar or Puttridankondaar. Devas prayed him and asked for protection and Lord Siva told the Devas to place the head. Thirumal and other devas prayed here Lord Siva and thus goes the Sthala purana for Vanmeeganathar.
Goddess Neelothbalambal blesses the devotees from a separate sannidhi and seen with a friend of her holding Lord Muruga on her shoulders and the goddess touching the head of Lord Muruga. In this sannidhi, the sanctum also has the palliyarai. There are separate sannidhis in the temple for - Sree Achaleswar, Sree Kamalambal, Sree Neelothbalambal, Sree Raghukala Rowdra Durgai, Sree Runavimochanar, Sree Viswakarmeswarar, Sree Dakshinamurthy, Sree Anantheeswarar, Sree Siddhiswarar, Sree hayagreeswarar, Sree Dakshinewswarar, Sree Annamaleswarar, Sree Varuneswarar, Sree Ottu Thiagesar, Sree Pulasthiaratcheswarar, Sree Pulasthiya Brahmeswarar, Sree Bhakhtheswarar, Sree Vilwatheeswarar and Sree Pathaleswarar. There are also temples for Lingas preyed by Thulasiraja and Devendran.
Sree Kamalambal temple is a Gnanasakthi Peetam. She has the atcharas (உயிரெழுத்துக்கள்) as the rightside peetam and Saraswathi as her left peetam. As a Srividyai amsam, the Utthishta Ganapthy also is in this sannidhi. Goddess is on the third prakara on the Northeast towards Esanya. As said earlier, the goddes is seen with Ganga in the head and crescent moon similar to the lord. Goddess is having the flower on the right hand and keeping her left hand in the hip and in sitting in a yogasana pose. Hayagreeva, Guru of Saraswathi has prayed here. She is in the form of Lalitha Sahasranama here. The Nandhi in front of the lord thiagara is in a standing posture.
Sree Kaalambal sametha Sree Thiagarajaswamy
The legend of Lord Thiagraja here is connected with Lord Vishnu and Thirumal wanted to progeny and to have a son and requested the lord here and was in tapas. Against all odds of weather, thirumal continued his tapas and Lord appeared before him and Thirumal expressed his wish and Lord blessed him for that. But Lord Vishnu did not pay obesiance to the left half of Lord Siva, Sree Umamaheswari. She cursed Lord Vishnu that even he had a son, he would not live long. Lord Vishnu surprised by this, made Lord Siva, Uma and Kumaran in a single asanam and conducted the pooja for the same. Pleased with the fervent prayers, Lord Siva along with Uma and Kumaran appeared and Lord Vishnu bowed to them all. Uma said to Vishnu her curse will not stop, though the son would burn of fire but would survive that. Vishnu requested that the three should bless the devotees in future staying here so that all people of this world should get benefitted by their darshan. Vishnu was praying the three murthis duly keeping them in his mind and due to the breadth of vishnu, lord siva too had his movements known as Ajaba dance. Asuras surrounded the deva loga and looted and troubled the Devas and Indra reported the same to Lord Vishnu in Parkadal. Vishnu told he would give the Somaskanthar which he considered the supreme in his life and asked him to conduct the poojas regularly to overcome the problem. He got over the problems and was praying the Somaskanthar with love. Thiruvarur was ruled by Musukunthan, who in his earlier janma was a monkey. When the Lord and Devi Uma were in Kailayam, the monkey was putting the vilva leaves which fell on the lord and devi. The happy lord made him to be the king in the next janma, who was Musukunthan.
Musukunthan was friendly with Indra and Indra brought him to devaloga to overcome problems from King valan. Musukunthan on seeing the vigraha of somaskantha was attracted to the moorthy and with bakthi prayed him. Lord then appeared to Musukunthan without Indra knowing about it. Musukunthann also got all the truth of his previous birth and the lord told him to take him to Thiruvarur and conduct pooja there. When Musukunthan about to leave to Thiruvarur, Indra asked him what he wanted to take from him. Musukunthan asked for the Thiagaraja peruman vigraha and Indra said that was given to him by Lord vishnu and he would ask him. Though Lord Vishnu permitted him to give the Vigraha, Indra did not want to give and hence he made identifcal six more vigrahas and asked Musukunthan to take one but Musukunthan identified the original one and thus brought it to Tiruvarur which was installed to the South of Vanmeeganathar on a Hastha Nakshatra day. Indra finding the devotion of Musukunthan gave all the other six vigrahas too and they were installed at the following places: Tirunallar, Nagapattinam, Thirukaravasal, Tiruvanimoor, Vedaranyam and Thirukuvalai. These seven places are called Saptha vithanga sthalams. They are the seven different dance styles of Lord Siva.
There are two Chandikeswarars in the temple. Adhi Chandeswarar as in any other temple and Yama chandikeswarar which is special for this temple. As any one born in Tiruvarur are Sivaganangal and thus Yama said the Lord Siva he had no work in this place, lord asked him to bestow blessings to devotees as Yama Chandikeswarar similar the Lord himself.
The temple car here is very large and when all the decorations are done with the deities weighs around 200 Tonnes. It has modern brake systems. The car festival draws huge crowd from all over Tamilandu and celebrated during the tamil month of Panguni (Mar-April) during the Uthiram festival which starts even from Masi month (Feb-March).
Temple Timings:
5 am to 12 noon
4 pm to 9 pm
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