The visit to this Sri Mahadevar Sivan Temple at Agaram, was a part of “Ashta Siddhi Temples” visit, located between Kosasthalaiyar and Koovam rivers, on the north side of Perambakkam. Apart from Shiva temples, on the way visited Perumal and Murugan temples also.
Moolavar : Sri Maha Devar
Consort : Sri Manonmani Amman
Some of the salient features of this temple are….
The temple is facing east. Entrance to the temple is from east. Balipeedam and Rishabam are in the Mukha mandapam. Moolavar is little large, hence called as Maha Devar. In koshtam Vinayagar, Dakshinamurthy, Lingothbavar, Brahma and Durgai.
Ambal is in a separate sannidhi facing south in mukha mandapam. In praharam Vinayagar, Sri Valli Devasena Subramaniar, Swarna Bairavar and Navagrahas. Vinayagar and damaged Amman / Jyeshta Devi / Thavvai idols are under a Peepal tree.
ARCHITECTURE
The temple consists of sanctum sanctorum, ardha mandapam and a open mukha mandapam. The re-construction of this do not confirm fully with the temple architecture. A 2 thala Vimanam is on the sanctum sanctorum. A Vesara Vimanam is on the sanctum. Dakshinamurthy, Maha Vishnu and Brahma are in the greeva koshtam. There is no images in the 1st thalam.
HISTORY AND INSCRIPTIONS
It is believed that the original temple was built during 7th Century Pallava period and latter received contributions from Chozhas. The temple was completely reconstructed with bricks and cement on the place where the Moolavar Shiva Lingam ( a Big green stone ) was unearthed and installed on 02nd December 2018. Maha Kumbhabhishekam was conducted on 30th January 2020.
As per the inscriptions recorded from this temple, Shri Shiva was called as Mahadeva Pudumavilangai Nakkar ( Nakkar means – laugh, may be related to Tripura samharam in which Shiva burnt the tripuram with his laugh. ) This place was under Manavil kottam in Pasali Nadu.
One of the inscription records the endowment of burning perpetual lamp by Servan, the head of the Village through some gift.
Another inscription records that there was a Jain temple called Vathavi Perumpalli existed in the same Village. ( As per Raja Velu and his students ).
LEGENDS
The Shiva Lingam is big size ( Maha ), hence Shiva is called as Maha Devar. Hence it is believed that,, devotees prays for completing big tasks and anything big.
This is one of the Ashta Siddhi Shiva temples ( 8 Shiva Temple ) located between Koovam and Kosasthalaiyar rivers on the North side of Perambakkam. towards north of Perambakkam in Tiruvallur District. It is believed that the Sage Agasthiya installed these 8 Shiva Lingas, worshiped and attained ashta siddhis. Each Shiva temple is associated with one of the Ashta siddhis. The details of this Lahima Siddhi from Srimad Bhagavatam are...
Lahima - லஹிமா
ஆகின்ற அத் தனி நாயகி தன்னுடன்
போகின்ற தத்துவம் எங்கும் புகலது ஆய்ச்
சாகின்ற காலங்கள் தன்வழி நின்றிடின்
மாய்கின்றதை ஆண்டின் மால் அது ஆகுமே.
With this siddhi, one can reduce the weight of the body like floating in the air. By worshiping Sri Agastheeswarar, now called as Sri Mahalingeswarar of this temple at Agaram, one can obtain the siddhi of Lahima.
POOJAS AND CELEBRATIONS
Apart from oru kala pooja, special poojas are conducted on pradosham, Maha Shivaratri, Vinayagar Chaturthi, etc,.
TEMPLE TIMINGS
Since oru kala pooja is conducted the exact time of opening and closing are unpredictable
CONTACT DETAILS
S Venkatesan +919159055306, Nallathambi +918870765876, Annamalai +919445616899, Vinod Kumar Sivachariyar +9655900921 & +919597651245 may be contacted for further details and darshan.
HOW TO REACH
Agaram is on the main road connecting Tiruvallur to Tiruttani and Poonamallee to Arakkonam highways. The temple is about 3.00 KM from Kadambathur, 6.7 KM from Perambakkam, 11 KM from Tiruvallur, 31 KM from Arakkonam and 54 KM from Chennai Central.
Nearest Railway station is Kadambathur.
LOCATION OF THE TEMPLE : CLICK HERE
Ref: A Book on Ashta Siddhi Temples by Mr Sai Kumar
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