Saturday 1 October 2016

Sri Someshar Temple, Keezha Pazhayarai, Ponniyin Selvan Meet 2016, Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu.

 26th September 2016.
I made up mind to attend the Ponniyin Selvan’s second year meet ( for the 1st years details... Please Click here ) at Tanjore Periya Kovil ( Big Temple )  immediately on the seeing the Ponniyin Selvan’s Post in FB. I thought it would add  some flavour, to this meet by visiting some temples constructed by Chozha Kings especially Rajaraja-I and Rajendra Chozha. Mr Raja, Mrs Sakthi Prakash and Ms Gowthami  ( Aathirai Chinnaswamy )   also joined with me for this visit.  We selected  Kumbakonam as a hub to visit to the temples.
  
Arrived on Saturday and hired a taxi. We are able to cover Pazhayarai East, ( Keezha Pazhayarai) and North Temple ( Vada Thali - Muzhaiyur), Patteeswaram, ThiruSakthiMutram,  Thiruvalanchuzhi, Panchavan Madevi Pallipadai, Darasuram and Swamy malai Murugan ( One of the six abodes of Sri Subramaniar). Panchavan Madevi Pallipadai  and Pazhayarai Vada Thali are not visited before and other temples visited earlier, as a part of Padal Petra Sthalangal Darshan.  The temples selected are in a sequence such that start from Lodge and come back to the lodge with out detouring. This would save time and cover more number of Temples. 
   
KEEZHA PAZHAYARAI / Pazhayarai Keelthali
In Pazhayarai, there are 4 temples on all the four directions. During my Yathra to Paadal Petra Sthalangal, visited this temple twice. In the earlier visits, the temple was under renovation. For the details of my earlier visit. ( Click here ).  The mottai gopuram stands with stone structure at the base and brick works after that. We had the opportunity of  climbing up to the top.

Pazhayarai was once capital to Chozha empire. There are series of temples built by Adithya Chozha to celebrate the victory of the battle at Thirupurambiyam ( 871 – 907 CE ) on the banks of river Kaveri. The Ponniyin Selvan’s  heros Rajaraja Chozha and Kundavai are grown up here. Rajendra Chozha was brought up here by Kundavai. The famous Chozha king Vijayalaya lived in Pazhayarai. The capital was moved to Thanjavur during Sundara Chozhan Period and Pazhayarai lost its importance.










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.......... to be continued ( Pazhayarai Vada thali).

--- OM SHIVAYA NAMA:---

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