18th November 2018.
This Sri Selliamman temple is a part of new Bus stand,
of Vellore on the banks of river Palar. This Sri Selliamman is part of a
Saptamatrikas and here Chamundi is
worshiped as Sri Selliamman. On both sides Veerabhadra and Vinayagar. Usually Sri Selliamman
is a Village or water body guarding
deity and she will be having a ferocious look. Selliamman in the temple is in
sitting sukhasana posture with jawala mudi, holding damru, soolam, pasam and
Kapalam in the 4 hands.
The Temple is facing East with a sanctum and a
mukha mandapam. The temple is about 8 feet below the road level. Muniswaran, Vinayagar
and Nagar are on the back side of the Amman sanctum. Under a neem tree baked terracotta
statues of elephants with man sitting on
it was offered by the devotees. A bell
tower with old bell is on the left side entrance. The sthala vrukshas are
Bamboo, Athi and Neem tree. It was told that the original temple was very old
may be 1000 years, but no evidences are found in the temple. The
temple was renovated in 1983 by TKB Sundaram, a bus owner as per the instruction of Amman who told this
in his dream.
LEGENDS
As per the legend the temple was built by the two
brothers namely Bommi & Thimmi who flooded to Vellore from Karnataka
fearing the killing by their cousins. The king allotted a land for the temple
and their stay. These two brothers chased out the dacoits from the village with
the grace of Sri Selliamman. Seeing this, the villagers also started worshiping Sri Selliamman as their kulatheivam.
Large number of devotees turned on Fridays and
Silver Chariot will be pulled around the sanctum. Devotees also tie swings on
the bamboo tree for getting a child. It was told that Special poojas will be
conducted to this Amman before any celebration at Sri Jalakandeswarar Temple in
the fort. Devotees believes that Sri Selliamman
will give solutions for all their problems and will never return with empty
handed.
TEMPLE
TIMINGS:
The temple will be kept opened between 07.00 hrs to
20.00 hrs.
CONTACT DETAILS:
The following numbers +91 416 2246969, +91 9442379290 and +91 8015333328
may be contacted for further details.
HOW TO
REACH:
The Temple
is on one side of the new bus terminus.
Town buses are available from Old Bus stand.
Nearest Railway station is Katpadi about 5 KM.
Sthala Vrukshas, Bamboo, Athi and Neem.
Terracotta / suduman images offered by the devotees
---OM SHIVAYA NAMA---
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