VELUDHARAN TEMPLES VISIT : Sri Azhagar Raja Perumal Temple and a Shiva Temple at Talguni, Tippu Period Temples at Talguni near Gobichettipalayam, Erode District, Tamil Nadu.

Friday, 22 July 2016

Sri Azhagar Raja Perumal Temple and a Shiva Temple at Talguni, Tippu Period Temples at Talguni near Gobichettipalayam, Erode District, Tamil Nadu.

22^nd July 2016

When I was at Talguni, Kolappalur near Gobichettipalayam, the locals claimed that the Sri Azhagar Raja Perumal temple and the Shiva temple are very old, built during the Tipu Sultan period, by his Hindu minister. There is evidence found to prove the same. The temples are maintained by local Vellalar/ Gounder caste peoples.

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SRI AZHAGAR RAJA PERUMAL TEMPLE

The temple is facing east with a garudathoon/ vilakku thoon / Deepasthambham. Inside the sanctum there is no murti/ Deity of Perumal instead there is a platform on which linga-like stones are kept. What is the significance, do not know and nobody was there to explain. Anjaneyar relief is kept in a separate sannidhi.

SHIVA TEMPLE

The Shiva temple faces east amid a field near a burial ground. The vimanam is in a pyramid shape with a kalasam on the top. Vinayagar and Murugan are at the entrance of the sanctum. A nagar relief is there on an unfinished stone.