Sri Draupadi Amman Temple / ஸ்ரீ துரௌபதி அம்மன் கோயில், Velachery, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

18^th November 2017.

This Draupadi Amman Temple is a little off from the Draupathi Amman Koil Street, in Velachery. Draupathi Amman is one of the characters in the Epic Mahabharat and the wife of Pancha Pandavas. She was believed to be the incarnation of Kali. There are many  Draupathi Amman Temples in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The annual festival is celebrated in and around Senji of Thiruvannamalai district. People worship Draupathi Amman as the Village deity and some people worship as their Kula Deivam.

Main deity : Sri Draupadi Amman.

Some of the important features of this temple are...

The temple is facing north with an open Mukha mandapam. In koshtam Brahmi,  Vaishnavi, Gowri,  Varagi and Vishnu Durgai. Reliefs of Pancha Pandavas, Radha Krishna, and Anjaneyar are on the mandapa pillars.

In the Sanctum Draupathi Amman is in a standing posture with a parrot on her shoulder. On the back side of Draupathi  Amman Krishna and Pancha Pandavas. Urchava murtis are kept on the east side of the sanctum. In front of Amman Mahameru is on a Sri Chakram. The thiruvasi was erected recently. It contains, flag, jwala, samaram and Suryan. In antarala balipeedam, a 1.5 feet high Dwajasthambam and Pothuraju with his father's head on his left hand in a sitting posture. 

HISTORY AND INSCRIPTIONS

The original temple was built with brick and it was told that the original temple was more than 300 years old. The original brick temple was razed down and a new temple was constructed, and the second Kumbhabhishekam was also performed in 2010.

The Draupathi Amman's Vigraham was unearthed in the same place where the sanctum exists. The name Draupadi was identified through Kudavolai. 

POOJAS AND CELEBRATIONS
The annual festival is celebrated every year during Tamil Month Chithirai 1st (May ). It will be a 10-day festival and ends with a "Theemithi Thiruvizha". The Theemithi Thiruvizha will be conducted after getting permission from Draupathi Amman. A sword was kept in a pot of water and the sword should stand straight if Amman nods.  

TEMPLE TIMINGS:

The temple will be kept open between 06.30 hrs to 08.30 hrs and 18.00 hrs to 20.30 hrs.

HOW TO REACH:

This temple is on the Draupathi Amman  Koil Street at Velachery / Dhandeeswaram / Dhandeeswaram colony.

Draupathi Amman Koil Street is just opposite Gandhi Road.

All the Town buses to wards Velachery, Medavakkam, and East Tambaram pass through the Gandhi Road bus stop and the temple is walkable distance from the bus stop.

LOCATION OF THE TEMPLE: CLICK HERE

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