Thiru Chopuram: Thiru Chopura Nadhar / Mangala pureeswarar
Temple.
The place is about 20 kms from Cuddlore.
The place is also known as Thyagavalli. The temple is on the shore of Bay of Bengal. This is one the Devara Sthalams of Nadu Naadu.
A Temple that was burried and recoverd from sand.
Some thousands of years back the
temple was buried into sand due to fury of the sea.
In the later years of 19th
century the sand was cleared and temple was constructed once again.
Main Deity is Swayambu Lingam Arulmigu
Thiru Chopura Nadhar/ Mangala pureeswarar and his consort Chopura Nayaki Amman
/ Sathyadakshi Amman...
Here Sivalingam is on square peetam
as Avudai and the Lingam portion is made of Sand. Palm print of Agasthya muni
is visible on the Lingam portion. There is a small ball like bulb which is
considered as Ganga. Lord Vishnu and Brahma are
seen worshipping at the back of sanctorum.
Something unique in this temple is
Turmeric and Kumkum is used for worship of Lord Siva here. Hence the Lord is
known as Mangala pureeswarar.
Unique factors
One can here sound of Saptha Swaram from
Dakshina Murthy idol when it is tapped.
Here White Vastram is used for Dakshina
Murthy instead of Yellow which is normal. Dakshina Murthy is seen with Nagam to
left hand and Agni to right hand which is in reverse order.
Teertham is known as Chopura
Teertham and Bay of Bengal.
Sthala Vruksham is Kondrai Tree.
Inside the inner prakaram we see
Vinayakar, Lakshmi, Murugan, Verrateswarare, Kannappar, Navagraham,
Lingothbavar, Dakshina Murthy, Bairavar, and Natarajar sanctums.
Sthala purana says once when a
devotee came here to worship Lord Siva he did not see the temple but a little
portion of Kalasa was visible from within the sand. The residence of the village helped in
removing the sand and the temple was visble.
During the marriage of Lord Siva and
Parvthy the land tilted to one side, due to the weight of complete Mankind and Devas
who gathered to see the function. So Lord Siva asked Agyasthya Muni to travel
towards south to balance.
As the sage was traveling he
installed Siva Lingam in many places for his worship. Once when he came to this
place he had severe stomach ache and he prayed to Lord Siva. He tried to make a Lingam
of sand which was available there. He was not able to do the Lingam. He realised Lord was testing him. He finally
used some herbs found near by and extracted juice from it and mixed them to
sand and made a Lingam out of it. The Lingam has palm print of sage Agasthya
when he installed it. He was relieved from stomach ache.
Agasthiyar and Thyagavalli
worshipped Lord Siva of this place.
Sambandhar sang Hymns on Lord Siva
of this temple.
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on Saturday, June 29, 2013
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Agasthyar,
Agni,
Bairavar,
Dakshina moorthy,
Devara Sthalam,
Kannappar,
Kondrai Tree,
Lakshmi,
Lingothbavar,
Murugan,
Nadu Naadu,
Nagar,
Natarajar,
Navagraham,
Palm print,
Verrateswarar,
vinayakar
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