An Insight view of Ancient Temples

  Sri Ramanatheeswarar Temple, Porur, Chennai                   Sri Ramanatheeswarar Temple, nearly 700 years old,   dedicated to Lord Shiva located at Porur in Chennai City in Tamilnadu. Presiding Deity is called as Ramanatheeswarar and Mother is called as Sivakama Sundari . The Temple is considered as equivalent to Rameswaram and also called as Uttara Rameswaram . Those who could not travel to Rameswaram can visit this temple and get blessed by the Lord. Like Lord VISHNU Temples, here devotees will be blessed with Theertham and Sadari. This is one of the Navagraha temples of Thondai Mandalam around Chennai dedicated to Shiva. In this temple, Lord Shiva is worshipped here as Guru Bhagwan ( No Separate sannathi for Guru )             The temple faces east with a five-tiered Rajagopuram. The sanctum is built in the Gajabrushta shape. In the main sanctum Lord Shiva is facing east. The Lingam is Swayambu (self-manifested). There is a huge Trishul (trident) installed near the Ling

Sri Nageswarar temple, Kundrathur             The Nageswarar Temple is located near Bazaar Street, Kundrathur, in Chennai suburb. The temple is around 1 km from the Kundrathur bus terminus. The Nageswarar Temple is dedicated to Sri Shiva as NAGESWARAR, and facing East and Ambal   as KAMAKSHI AMMAN in separate shrine facing South.             Then ruling king made Sekkizhaar his minister at his capital. Sekkizhaar was an ardent devotee of Lord Shiva and was regularly worshipping Lord Shiva at Thirunaageswaram near Kumbakonam. During later stages, Sekkizhaar built a temple for Lord Shiva at Kunrathur which is very similar to the Thirunaageswaram temple. He installed the deity (Shiva Lingam) with Naagaabaranam (snake as an ornament) around the Shiva Lingam and named the Lord as Sri Naageswarar. This temple is parihara sthalam for Raagu preethi for the Navagraha worship and was built by the descendents of Sekkizhaar (who wrote Periya Puranam). The Nagabharanam around the linga is s

Sri Thirumanangeeswarar - ( Sri Thiruvudai Amman) Temple, Melur, Minjur, Chennai   The Thirumanangeeswarar - Thiruvudai Amman Temple is dedicated to Lord   Shiva as  Thirumanangeeswarar   and Ambal as  Thiruvudai Amman . The famous Thiruvudai Amman Temple at Melur. This temple is one of the Tri-Shakti temples in and around Chennai. Devi Thiruvudai Amman represents Iccha Shakti (Power of Will). The other two temples are   Vadivudai Amman Temple   representing Gnana Shakti and   Kodiyidai Amman Temple   representing Kriya Shakti . The form of the Devi in all three temples is identical.               This place was once a forest with filled with trees & shrubs with sweet smelling flowers and was known as Suganda Vanam (Suganda-indicating sweet smelling, vanam-forest). The people from neighbouring villages found a grazing cow showering its milk into a shrub. They found a Lingam (Svayambu – self formed) within the shrub. They worshipped the Lord as Sungandavaneswaran. In due cou

  Sri Papahareswarar Temple, Vadathillai              This Lord Shiva temple is an ancient temple more than 1000 years in old Vadathillai, a small village on the banls of Arani River  The Sthala Purana-local history – as directed by Acharya Ramanuja, Chandragiri king Kattithevan Yadavarayan built this beautiful Shiva temple for Embar Govindan, Who brought small Banalinga of palm size when he was bathing in the Holy Ganga in Varanasi, to this temple. Moolavar    : Sri Papahareswarar Consort      : Sri Maragathavalli            The main sanctorum is with sanctum and a maha mandapam. Moolavar is little big and Palm size Panalingam is also kept in front on the avudayar. Inner Praharam we can see Narthana Vinayagar, Dakshinamurthy, Lingothbavar and Durgai.               In the outer parakaram separate  sannadhis for Vinayagar, Murugan , Subramaniyar, Chandikeswarar and Ambal. Sri Maragathavalli Ambal is in a separate temple, in  standing posture facing south. It is believed that