10th
March 2019.
After
visiting the Chozha Temple in ruins near Thiruvalam, our next plan was to visit Kanchana Giri.
It was said that there is a special stone that gives a bell sound when tapped. Afraid
of climbing the hill under the scorching sun, I dropped the idea and decided to visit the Thiruparkadal Vishnu Temples on the banks of the river Palar. We had the darshan of Sri Prasanna Venkatesa
Perumal and Sri Ranganathar before the closure of the temple after Uchi kala pooja.
Moolavar
: Sri Prasanna Venkatesa Perumal
Thayar
: Sri Alarmel Mangai
Some
of the salient features of this temple are…
The
temple faces east with a temple pond (Pundareeka theertham) and
Dwajasthambam. Mandapam with a small two-tier Rajagopuram is at the entrance of the sanctum sanctorum. There are no images in the koshtams. Pundareeka
Vimana is over the sanctum with stucco images of Gajendra Varadar,
Dakshinamurthy, Lakshmi Narasimhar, and Brahma.
Moolavar
is standing on a Shiva Linga Avudayar. (It was said that Sri Prasanna
Venkatesa Perumal is standing on the Shiva Lingam to signify that Shiva and
Vishnu are both one.) Two utsava murtis are in the sanctum, of which one will be
going out for the procession.
In
the praharam, Alarmel Mangai Thayar (a large Sri Chakra is
installed in front), Andal, Navaneetha Krishnan with Bama & Rukmini,
Bhakta Anjaneyar, 9 Nagadevas on a pedestal, Nagaboosana Garudalwar (holding 9
snakes).
ARCHITECTURE
The sanctum sanctorum was built with the sanctum antarala and ardha mandapam. The sanctum was built with pada bandha adhistana.
HISTORY & INSCRIPTIONS
It is believed that this temple was built in the early 16th Century during the Krishnadevaraya period. His bas reliefs, along with Dhavalan Naiken and Rani Mangammal, are there in this temple. As per the inscriptions, this place was called "Narayana Chaturvedi Mangalam"
There are three entrances to see the moolavar, and there is no separate Sorga vasal.
LEGENDS
As
per the legend, Pundareeka Maharishi, after attending Brahma’s yagam, proceeded to
Thiruparkadal to worship Lord Vishnu. Since it was a little late to reach
Thiruparkadal, he landed here, took a bath in a temple pond, and went inside
the temple to worship Lord Vishnu. To his disappointment, it was a Shiva temple and came out. An old
man (Vishnu) met outside the temple and asked him to go once again to see
Vishnu in the sanctum. When he entered the sanctum, to his surprise, Lord
Vishnu was in a standing posture on a Shiva Linga Avudayar with his right hand in abhaya hastam. Since this happened on Thiruvonam Nakshatra - Vaikunta
Ekadasi day, this temple is considered as Thiruvonam Star Temple. Hence, Thiruvona Star devotees pray to Lord Vishnu
of this temple.
POOJAS AND CELEBRATIONS
Apart
from regular poojas, special poojas are conducted on Pradosham, No Moon Day, Full Moon Day, Vaikunta Ekadasi Day, etc.
TEMPLE TIMINGS:
The
temple will be kept open from 07.30 hrs to 12.00 hrs, and from 16.30 hrs to
19.30 hrs.
CONTACT DETAILS:
Battar
Sri Venkat Rangam may be contacted for pooja details. The contact numbers are
9486877896, 9486139289, and 8015114344.
HOW TO REACH:
This
temple is about a km from Thiruparkadal village and about 3.5 km from Kaveripakkam.
Kaveripakkam
is on the Chennai to Bangalore National
Highway before the Toll Plaza.
Kaveripakkam
is 16.4 km from Ranipet, 17.6 km from Arcot, 32.2 km from Kanchipuram, and 38.1
km from Vellore.
LOCATION OF THE TEMPLE: CLICK HERE
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SHIVAYA NAMA---
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