25th
March 2018
In search
of Mambalam EllaiAmman and Village
Guarding deities continued on 25th March 2018, since no program was
planned on Sunday. It was pending for a
long period to get clarifications from the Poojari of Nava Sakthi Pidari Sri Kaliamman temple of
Ashok Nagar, one of the EllaiAmman of Mambalam. I was lucky this time. He
guided me to go to this Sri Nagathamman Temple on the border of Ashok Nagar and
KK Nagar.
Presiding
Deity : Sri Nagathamman.
Some of the important features of this temple are….
This temple
is facing east with an entrance arch. The stucco images of dwarapalakis are on
the both sides of the entrance. Soolam, balipeedam and Simha Vahana are
immediately after the entrance arch in the front mandapam. The sanctum sanctorum consists of Sanctum,
artha mandapam and a Mukha mandapam. In mukha mandapam stucco images of various
incarnations of Ambal. Nagars are under a peepal tree and Navagrahas are in the
mandapam. The sanctum vimana is of 2 tiers and Durgai is in koshtam.
HISTORY AND INSCRIPTIONS
It was told
that the presiding deity Amman ( Amman’s head under the Amman kept in sitting
posture ) and the Amman under peepal
tree are found while ploughing in the same place, which was once an agricultural
land. Poojari told that he do not know, from when the original temple exists,
but may be 400 to 500 years old. The
present temple was constructed about 50 years before and kumbhabhishekam was conducted in the year 1993.
He also told this is also an Ellaiamman Temple of Ashok Nagar ( originally it
was a part of Mambalam area ) and KK
Nagar.
TEMPLE TIMINGS:
The temple
will get opened between 06.00 hrs to
11.00 hra and 17.00 hrs to 20.30 hrs.
HOW TO REACH:
Very near
to Nagathamman temple bus stop on P T Rajan Salai, in KK Nagar, 20th Avenue.
Town buses
G70, 5E, 37D, 11H and 18H passes through this place.
LOCATION :CLICK HERE
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