Wednesday 27 July 2016

Sri Veera sekarar Temple, Sakkottai, Devakottai in Sivaganga District, Tamil Nadu.

  
27th July 2016
When I told about the missed opportunity of attending my friend Mr Venkatesh, son’s marriage at Devakottai,  to one of my friend Mr Nachiappan,  in turn invited me to Devakottai to attend the Kottai Amman’s annual 15 days festival, which is unique in nature and lakhs of people used attend from various parts of India.  So I decided to attend the festival  to get the blessings of Sri Kottai Amman.  I stayed along with his family and visited Two shiva temple and a Saibaba temple.

SRI VEERASEKARAR TEMPLE, SAKKOTTAI, SIVAGANGA DISTRICT

The temple is maintained by  130 pulli Devakottai nagarathars through former Chief justice A R Lakshmanan  and his family. They have their madam which was renovated recently.


Moolavar    : Sri Veerasekarar
Consort      : Sri Umayambigai.

Some of the important features of this temple are…
The temple is facing east with a 7 tier Rajagopuram and a temple pond  in front with a mandapam. The temple was constructed in stages like a mada temple. Constructed completely with stone. In koshtam Vinayagar, Dakshinamurthy, Brahma, Durgai.

In the inner prakaram 63var, Bhairavar Subramaniyar, Gajalakshmi,  Perumal ( This Vishnu statue was unearthed during renovation at Nandhavanam ), Bairavar, Natarajar, Navagrahas, Veeramaram in stone with Nagars.

Ambal sannadhi is in the front mandapam with separate Dwajasthambam, Palipedam and Nandi.

There are about 4 statues of Nagarathars sculptured on the pillar ) Might have done thirupani to this temple ).


HISTORY
There is no inscription on the moolavar sanctum but available in the front mandapam, which is of latter period. From the recent period inscription it was learnt that the kumbhabhishekam was conducted during 1887 and from other inscriptions, the temple might have constructed during 15th to 16th century.



HOW TO REACH :
The temple is very near to Karaikudi, can be reached through Taxi and frequency of the bus is limited.


LOCATION OF THE TEMPLE :CLICK HERE











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