3rd February 2020.
This Olageshwarar Temple’s Visit was a part of Heritage Visit to temples, Hero stones and Heritage sites around Anthiyur and Athani, scheduled on 03rd February 2020. In this visit we tried to cover only ancient temples. The first visit was to this 12th to 13th Century Shiva temple.
Moolavar : Sri Olageshwarar
Consort : Sri Ulaga Nayagi
Some of the salient features of this temple are…
The temple is facing east with a 3 tier rajagopuram. Balipedam, Dwajasthambam and Nandhi are immediately after the rajagopuram. Moolavar is swayambu. In Koshtam Vinayagar, Dakshinamurthy, Lingothbavar, Brahma and Durgai.
In prakaram sannadhi for Vinayagar, Sri Valli Devasena Shanmuga subramaniyar, Sandikeswarar, Bhairavar, Navagrahas, Chandran, Suryan and Shaniswarar. Ambal is in arthamandapam facing south. In addition to this there are some Hero stones and details will be posted separately.
ARCHITECTURE
The sanctum sanctorum consists of sanctum, antarala and arthamandapam. The adhisthanam is of very simple padabandha adhisthana with tripatta kumuda. The Arthamandapam might have been constructed after the sanctum. The Rajagopuram was constructed during Vijayanagara period.
HISTORY AND INSCRIPTIONS
As per the inscription this place was called as Ulagavidangam and Lord Shiva was called as Vageeswarar. Since this temple bears the 13th century inscriptions, this temple my belongs to 12th century or before.
The 13th Century Kongu Chozha Veerarajendran’s 24th year rule inscription on the Sri Valli Devasena Subramaniyar sannadhi’s entrance side stone records the construction of this sannadhi Kundramerintha Pillayar ( Lord Muruga is also called as Kundramerintha Pillayar ) by Vadakari Nattu Ulagavidanga Village Kallai Vettuvar Karunchokkan Valiya Chokkan.
A 13th Century Kongu Pandyar Sundara Pandyan period inscription on the mahamandapam entrance side stone opposite to Sri Subramaniyar sannadhi records the gift of land to this Olageshwarar Temple and it also mentions the erection of Soolakkal on all the four boundaries.
A 13th Century Kongu Chozha Kulothungan’s 5th year rule inscription on the Mahamandapam entrance side stone opposite to Ambal sannadhi records the gift of land to this temple by Vadakarai Nattu Ulagavidanga Village Kallai Vettuvar Sadaya Nammpillai.
The 13th century ( without King’s name and year ) inscription records the King’s direct order of gift to Vadakarai Nadu, Poovaniya Nadu, Kizhangka Nadu and Venkala Nadu. Since the inscription was damaged very heavily the details are not known.
The 13th Century Kongu Chozha Veerarajendran’s 34th year Rule inscription on the mahamandapam west wall records the gift. The details are not known.
The 14th Century Kongu Chozha Vikrama Chozha period inscription on the mahamandapam north side wall records the gift and the details are not known.
During renovations some of the stones are interchanged and some were lost. Hence the inscriptions of Vikrama Chozha, Thiribhuvanaveerathevar, etc., are not complete and do not have continuity.
Kumbhabhishekam was conducted in 1894 and 2003
TEMPLE TIMINGS:
The temple will be kept open between 07.00 hrs to 11.00 hrs and 17.00 hrs to 19.00 hrs.
CONTACT DETAILS:
Sri Eswara Gurukkal may be contacted on his mobile 9597097614 and 9842639376 for further details.
HOW TO REACH:
This Shiva Temple at Olagadam is about 300 from Olagadam EB office on the Olagadam to Rajakumaranoor Road.
Olagadam is 9 KM from Anthiyur, 17 KM from Bhavani, 41 KM from Erode and 420 KM from Chennai.
Nearest Railway junction is Erode.
LOCATION: CLICK HERE
Vijayanagara period inscription
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