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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