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
MEENAKSHI SUDARESWARAR TEMPLE – DEVAKOTTAI
The
temple belongs to 40 sections of Nattukkottai nagarathars.
Moolavar : Sri Sundareswarar
Consort : Sri Meenakshi
Some
of the important features of this temple are…
The
five tier Rajagopuram is in front with balipeedam, Dwajasthambam and Rishabam / Idabam. In the koshtam the sculptures instead of yazhi are worth to watch. In koshtam Vinayagar, Dakshinamurthy, Brahma and Durgai. Sanctum is built like mada kovil with steps to climb.
Ambal is in a separate temple with Rajagopuram, Balipeedam, Rishabam and Dwajasthambam.
Both temple are facing east with Rajagopuram. In between Rajagopuras, Stucco images of Meenakshi Sundareswarar thirukalyanam on the top of the wall.
Meenakshi Sundareswarar thirukalyanam
In
the inner prakaram sannadhi for 63var, Somaskandar, Maragatha Vinayagar, Sri
Viswanathan & Visalakshi, Balathandayuthapani, Valli Devasena Subramaniar,
Gajalakshmi, Natarajar Saba, Bhairavar, Chandran and Saneeswarar.
In
the prakaram sannadhi for Palliyarai, Navagrahas. In
koshtam, Icha, Gana and Kiriya sakthi moorthams. There
is a mandapam between Ambal and Shiva’s sannadhi to conduct important
functions.
Sculptures above koshtam
Sculptures above koshtam
HOW
TO REACH :
Devakottai
is about 20 KM from Karaikudi
The
temple is about 1.5 KM from Bus stand and autos are available from bus stand.
LOCATION
OF THE TEMPLE :CLICK
HERE
Used
for drum played for functions
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SHIVAYA NAMA:---
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