A Wandering Heritager: Thirumalaisamy Temple / Bhagwan Thirumalaisamy Temple at Kavanthandalam, Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu

Saturday 18 April 2020

Thirumalaisamy Temple / Bhagwan Thirumalaisamy Temple at Kavanthandalam, Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu

15^th March 2010.

The visit to this Bhagwan Thirumalaisamy Temple, Kavanthandalam, was not a part of Shiva, Vishnu and Amman Temples Visit on the banks of river Cheyyar / Palar, scheduled on 15^th March 2020. During our Sri Silambeswarar Temple’s visit it was told that this temple’s Perumal was brought from there. This temple is little away from the hamlet, on the banks of river Cheyyar a tributary to river Palar. The approach to this temple is through a private teak wood tree forest.

During Chozha period, this place was called as Jayankonda Chozha Mandalathu Ootrukottaththu Thammanur Nattu Kavanthandalamana Chathurvedimangalam.

Moolavar : Sri Thirumalaisamy

Thayar : Sri Kusalambal

Some of the salient features of this temple are....

This is a very simple and small temple facing east. Balipedam and Garuda are in front of the Temple. There is no murtis in the koshtam. The sanctum sanctorum consists of sanctum, antarala and arthamandapam. A two tier vesara vimana is on the sanctum. The sanctum sanctorum adhisthana construction was not followed ancient method with Jagathi, Kumuda etc, instead a typical village style was followed.

As per the structure like Pillar bas-reliefs, pushpa pothyal without vazhaipoo and the inscriptions this temple belongs to 15-16^th Century Vijayanagara period and renovated by one Kattuputhur Mr Babu Reddiyar during ( 1837 CE )19^th Century. As per the inscription this place belongs to Magaral which is about 4 KM from this place. The original inscription reads as....