21st April 2019.
Last week, with the elections combined, there are 4 days spared for my personal works. Thought of spending usefully. Had been to Villupuram for Koovagam Koothandavar Temple’s annual festival. On 21st April 2019, thought of visiting old Shiva and Vishnu temples around Nazarathpettai & Meppur, near Poonamallee. During my earlier visit all the 4 planned temples were found closed. So on Sunday, started little earlier in the morning to try my luck. In this visit able to cover Two Shiva temples and a Vishnu Temple. First Visited the Sri Kasi Viswanathar Temple at Nazarathpettai.
Iraivan : Sri Kasi Viswanathar
Iraivi : Sri Kasi Visalakshi
Some of the salient features of this temple are….
The temple is facing east with an entrance arch on the south side. Palipedam, Dwajasthambam and Rishabam are in front of sanctum sanctorum. A snake relief is on the left side of the Rishabam. It was told that karkodaka Maharishi installed and worshiped Lord Shiva of this temple. The sanctum sanctorum consists of sanctum, antaralka and arthamandapam. A Sudhai small Rajagopuram was constructed during the recent renovations. Beautiful dwarabalakas are at the entrance of the sanctum. In koshtam Vinayagar, Dhakshinamurthy, Vishnu, Brahma and Durgai.
Sannadhi for Vinayagar, Srivalli Devasena Subramaniyar with Urchavars, Nagars, Veerabhathirar, Naalvar, Navagrahas, Suryan, Chandran, Natarajar, Sandikeswarar and Ambal are in the inner prakaram. A Nandhiamperuman’s statue is in the arthamandapam, before dwarabalakas. There is a separate sannadhi for Somaskandhar.
In the outer parakaram sannadhi for Seva Ganapathy, Iyappan, A maha mandapam and Sani Bagavan. Nagar and Vinayagar are under the Vilva tree.
Apart from regular Poojas, Maha Shivarathiri, 10days Masi Urchavam will be celebrated in a grand manner.
Based on the structure, the temple may be 500 to 600 years old. The pillars of the arthamandapam and mahamandapam may belongs to Vijayanagara period. On 1st June 2014, renovation were carried out and Punaraavatha jinothaarana ashtabhandhana Maha Kumbhabhishekam was conducted.
As per the legend Karkodaka maharishi, son of Kubera Vamsa Munthikeswarar 9 One of the Ashta thikku Balakas – Kubera Vamsa m) worshiped Lord Shiva of this temple. To signify this there is a snake relief on the Rishabam. Shiva gave dharshan to one of the disciple of Sri Dharma Sivachariyar’s 1000 students. It is believed that this temple is equivalent to Kasi in all respects. 5 days in the month of Tamil month Panguni, sun light falls on moolavar.
TEMPLE TIMINGS:
The temple will be kept opened between07.00 hrs to 11.30 hrs and 17.00 hrs to 20.30 hrs.
HOW TO REACH:
The temple is on the junction of Gandhiji Street and Eswaran Koil Street.
About 550 to 600 meters from Nazarathpettai Bus stop on Chennai to Bengaluru Highway.
All the city buses from Chnnai via Poonamallee to Kanchipuram and Sriperumbudur stops at the Nazarathpettai bus stop.
Nandhiyam Peruman and Dwarabalaka
Dwarabalaka
Kumba panjaram
Mandapa Pillar reliefs - Vishnu
Mandapa Pillar reliefs - Shiva
---OM SHIVAYA NAMA---
---OM SHIVAYA NAMA---
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