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- Thirup pyenjeeli:
This is one of 275 important Siva Devara Sthalam. The place is about 8kms from Mannacha nallore.
Main Deity is known as Neelakandeswarar, Jeelivana nadhar, and his consort known as Visalakshi ammai.Teertam is known as Appar teertham.
Sthala vruksham is Jeeli, a variety of plantain tree.
Importance: Siva appeared in the form of human being and gave food for Navakkuarasar. Vasista muni had darshan of Siva in dancing posture. Here instead of navagraha we see 9 small deepas lighted in front of Dwajasthamba.
We see separate Yama temple outside the main temple within the compound. Inside the sanctum we see Siva and Parvathi with Muruga between them as somaskandha moortham with yama under the leg of Siva, Surya and Chandra on the top, to either side with chamaram.
Appar, Sundarar and Sambandhar sang hymns on Siva of this place.
- Thiruvellari:
The temple is one of 108 Divaya desam. The place is about 17 kms from trichy to north.
Main Deity is Pundarekaksha perumal and his consort known as Pankayach selvi thayar, Shenbagavalli in different sanctum. Teertham is Manikarnika, Kusa, Pushkala. Sthala Vruksham is Elandhy maram.
Importance: There are two entrances to the temple known as Uttharayana and Dakshinana. There is one more door inside known as Nazhikettan door.
PuranaThe story for the door is when perumal came late in the night thayar questioned him for the delay. Priority is for Goddess here. Lakshmi, Bhomadevi, Surya, Chandra, and Adiseshan worshipped god in human form. There is a pond belonging to the temple in swastik shape known as mamiar kulam. The construction is in such a way that person taking bath in a side cannot see the person who is to the other side
- Thiruthiya malai: Siva temple.
The place is about 10 kms from Thiruvellari.
Main Deity is Swayambu linga known as Eka pushpa priyanadhan and his consort known as Thaiyilum nallaval in different sanctum.Water spring is considered as teertham.
Importance: The temple dates back to some 5000 years back. It is on a small hillock and looks like a fort. Only one flowers blooms and the main deity was worshipped with that flower and hence the name. The place is a small village and hardly people visit the place. The temple is maintained well.
[ Devara sthalam}[Divya Desam]
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- Kumara Vayalore.
The place is about 5 kms from Uiakondan malai .
Main Deity: is known as Adhinadha Swamy and his consort Adhinayaki Amman
Importance: Arunagirinadhar acquired gyana in this place. With the blessings of Subramanya, Thirupugazh was sung by Arunagiri nadhar in this place. The first line of thirupugazh “muthai thiru” was hinted by Subramanaya swamy and it was continued by Arunagiri nadhar. Subramana swamy is worshipping his parents in this place. Vinayaka of this place is known as poiya vinayakar who blessed Arunagirinadhar.
- Iyappan temple
The temple is near trichy court.
Main Deity is Iyappan.
Importance: There is no hundi in the temple. There is a letter box which says “prayer letters to God”. Anyone can write their wishes and drop it in the box. The letters will be presented before Iyappan on uthra star day of every month prayers done. There is a note near the box which says there is no charge for this. The temple is full of green plants well maintained and good path all around. Instruction boards are there with positive request.
We see stones errected with wordings which give importance to mother quoted by great persons. Another special thing is we see small stones collected from holy rivers and holy places all over the world and each placed on small platforms. They have written the place of the stone. Everyday they do pooja to this stones also. They say having darshan of such collection of holy stones in one place will definitely remove hurdles in ones life and make them prosper. The other deities in the premises are Kanni moola Ganapthy, Sakthi- Vinayakar, Bagavathi amman and Navagraha.
- Uthammar Koil:
This is one of 108 Vishnu temples known as Divya Desam..
The place is about 6kms from Trichy.
Main Deity: Puroshotama perumal in lying posture and Poornavalli Thayar in separate sanctum.Teertham is Kadamba teertham.
Importance: other dieties in temple are Lakshmi Narayana perumal, Varadaraja perumal, Rama and Nammazwar. We have a separate sanctum for Brahma and as well as Saraswathi. While we go around the temple we see at the back of perumal Swayambu linga known as pichandar sannadhi in different sanctum. Vadivudai nakayi amman is seen in different sanctum. We see lakshmi , nayanar, Dasaradha linga, Chandikeswarar.
Purana says Lord Siva to get rid of brahmahathi dosha due to the removal of brahma’s
head. Lord Siva took the form as pichandar, and was roaming around with a bowl in his hand. At this time Poornavalli thayar gave biksha to him in his bowl and he was relieved from the dosha.
Siva preached Gyana upadesa. The place is known as Saptha guru sthalam. Dakshina moorthy as Siva guru,Varadaraja perumal as Vishnu guru, Brahma has brahma guru, Soundarya parvathi as Sakthi guru, Dandayudha pani as gyana guru, Guru of navagraha as Deva guru, Sukra of navagraha as Asura guru.
[Lord subramanya} [Divya Desam]
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- Thiru Mukkichuram or Urayoore:
One of 275 important Siva Devara sthalam. The place is about 2 kms from Trichy.
Main Deity : Pancha Varneswarar and his consort known as Kanthimathi Ammai. Sthala vruksham is Vilvam. Teertham is known as Siva teertham.
Name: Uthanga muni had darshan of Siva in five colours in one day so he is known as Pancha varneswarar. Brahma also had same kind of Lord siva’s. This shows that Siva is reason for everything.
Importance: The temple was built by Chola King. He was a great Siva devotee. Once he went on his horse in search of a good place for constructing a Siva temple. All of a sudden the elephant started behaving weird and every one was frightened. King was unable to control and he cried loud for help from Siva, the god whom he worshipped.
At this time a cock flew down and hit the elephant and the elephant was taken into control. Soon after this the cock disappeared near a Vilva tree. King was surprised and asked his men to dig and see near the tree. They found a Siva linga, and the king constructed a temple in the same place. The linga was installed and known as panchalingeswarar.
Sambandhar sang hymns on Siva of this place.
Urayoore: Siva temple. Main Deity is known as Thaanthondrieswarar and his consort Kumkumavalli Amman.
- Thiru karkudi:
this is one of 275 SivaDevara sthalam. The place is about 3kms from Trichy.
Main Deity is known as Ujeeva nadhar and his consort known as Anjanakshi Ammai. One more Goddess is there known as Balambikai.
Sthala vruksham is Vilvam. Teertham is Kudamuruti and Gyanavavi.
Importance: The temple is on top of small hill with 100 steps to go. It looks like a small fort. This is known as Uiakondan malai. The temple is 1200 years old and belongs to pallava period.
Markendeya worshipped Siva of this place when yama came to take his life. Siva resqued him and blessed him as chiranjeevi. It’s a belief that, one who worships Siva here will not have fear of yama.
Navakkuarasar and Sambandhar sang hymns on Siva of this place
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