Sri Kulasekara Swamy Shiva Temple at Sholamadevi near Udumalpet, Tiruppur District, Tamil Nadu – A part of kongu Temples.

07^th December 2018.

The visit to this temple happened accidentally. On the way to Vishnu Durgai ( Will be covered in a separate post ) at Sarkar Kannadiputhur, near Udumalpet, A Shiva Temple, Solamadevi painted in bright brick colour on the banks of river Amaravathi attracted us through the paddy fields.

Moolavar    : Sri Kulasekara Swamy Temple

Consort      : Sri Kunkumavalli

Some of the important features of this temple are…

The temple is facing east with Rishabam and  balipedam. The temple complex does not have entrance arch, Rajagopuram and compound wall. In koshtam Dakshinamurthy, Lingothbavar, Brahma and Durgai installed at a latter date.

In the outer prakaram sannadhi for Chandikeswarar, Bairavar, Navagrahas and Ambal Temple. The Ambal temple also facing east might have been built/ renovated in the recent years.

ARCHITECTURE

The sanctum sanctorum consists of sanctum, antarala, ardha mandapam and maha mandapam. The sanctum was built with a simple padabandha adhisthana, bootha ganas on the ceiling level and yazhivari on the parapet level. Brick and mortar two tier nagara vimanam is above the sanctum.

 Bootha and Yzhi vari

 Koshtas

HISTORY & INSCRIPTION

The Adhisthana and Temple walls has the 12^th to 13^th Century Kongu Chozhas Vikrama Chozha and Veera Rajendran’s inscriptions. The inscriptions speaks about donation of lands made to this temple for burning of perpetual lamp and poojas.

Vikrama Chozha inscriptions

TEMPLE TIMINGS:

The temple will be kept opened between 07.00 hrs to 10.00 hrs and 17.00 hrs to 19.00 hrs.

HOW TO REACH:

On the road from Udumalpet to Dharapuram turn right at Karatholuvu towards Madathukulam / Kozhumam to reach Solamadevi and the temple is just before the Village.  

The temple is 5 KM from Karatholuvu, 21 KM from Udumalpet and 27 KM from Dharapuram.

LOCATION OF THE TEMPLE :CLICK HERE

Ambal Temple

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