13th April 2019.
This Perumal temple was a part of Kolathur temple’s visit. There is a big temple tank called Kalyana Theertham, on the back side of the temple. The Kolathur in Sanskrit called as Kaasarapuri.
Moolavar : Sri Kalyana Varadharaja Perumal
Thayar : Sri Ranganayagi
Some of the salient features of this temples are…
The temple is facing east with a 3 tier Rajagopuram. A Deepa sthambam ( short ), Palipedam, Dwajasthambam and Garudalwar is at the entrance of the sanctum. The sanctum sanctorum consists of sanctum, antarala, arthamandapam and a muka mandapam. Moolavar Sri Kalyana Ranganathar is in standing posture with Sridevi and Bhoodevi is called Kalyana sobanam. Urchavars are in antarala. The sanctum is wath a pathabandha adhistanam. The Kalyana Vimanam is on the sanctum. There is no statues in the koshtam. Thayar is in a separate temple like sannadhi also facing east. Anjaneyar sannadhi is immediately after the Rajagopuram.
It was Told that the Consorts of Nithya Kalyana Perumal of Thiruvidanthai and this Kalayana Ranganatha perumal are sisters and Akila Valli Thayar was born in this Village. Further, Thiruvidanthai Sri Kalyana Varadharaja Perumal used to Visit this Place.
As per the history, the temple was built during 8th Century, completely renovated and Ashtabhandhana Jeenorthana MahaSamprokshnam was conducted on 24th Aug 2003 and Sriperumbudur Jeeyar Swamy was also participated. Except Deepa Sthambam, nothing is there to prove it’s antiquity.
Apart from regular poojas, annual festival like Annakoodai is also celebrated ( Rice, Sambar, Rasam, Sweets, fruits will be offered). This temple is equivalent to Thiruvidanthai Nithya Kalyana Perumal Temple to pray for marriages.
TEMPLE TIMINGS:
The temple will be kept opened between 07.00 hrs to 09.00 hrs and 16.30 Hrs to 18.30 hrs.
CONTACT DETAILS:
Archakar Arangan Karthi may be contacted for further details on his mobile 9445275268.
HOW TO REACH:
Kolathur may be reached through town bus No M51V from T Nagar via Saidapet- Medavakkam.
About 2 KM from Mambakkam, which is on the Kelambakkam Vandalur Road.
Kolathur is about 18 KM from Vandalur and 8 KM from Kelambakkam through Mambakkam.
LOCATION:CLICK HERE
---OM SHIVAYA NAMA---
Ohm namo Narayana
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We were searching for detail.
Very nice and informative.
For Marriage
Here they do archana for the dirty
And with lemon archana to Chakra and to perform pooja for 7 days in Home. All benefitted
Thanks for the information Raghavan
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