10th
March 2019.
After
visiting the Chozha Temple in ruins near Thiruvalam, our next plan was to visit to Kanchana giri.
It was told that there is a special stone which gives bell sound when tapped. Afraid
of Climbing the hill under scorching sun, dropped the idea and decided to visit
Thiruparkadal Vishnu Temples on the banks of river Palar. We had the darshan of Sri Prasanna Venkatesa
Perumal and Sri Ranganathar before 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 is facing east with a Temple pond ( Pundareeka theertham ) and
Dwajasthambam. Mandapam with a small two tier rajagopuram is at the entrance of
sanctum Sanctorum. There is no Moortham in the koshtams. Pundareeka
Vimana is on the sanctum with stucco images of Gajendra Varadar,
Dakshinamurthy, Lakshmi Narasimhar and Brahma.
Moolavar
is standing on a Shiva Linga Avudayar. ( it was told that Sri Prasanna
Venkatesa Perumal is standing on the Shiva Lingam to signify that Shiva and
Vishnu, both are one ). Two urchavars are in the sanctum, of which one will be
going out for the procession.
In
the prakaram sannadhi for Alarmel Mangai Thayar ( a large Sri Chakra is
installed in front), Andal, Navaneetha Krishnan with Bama & Rukmini,
Bhaktha Anjaneyar, 9 Nagadevas on a pedestal, Nagaboosana Garudalwar ( holding 9
snakes ).
ARCHITECTURE
The sanctum sanctorum was built with sanctum antarala and artha mandapam. The sanctum was build with padabandha adhisthana.
HISTORY & INSCRIPTIONS
It is believed that this temple was built in early 16th Century during 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 as "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 little late to reach
Thiruparkadal, he landed here and took 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 ) meet out side the temple and asked him to go once again to see
Vishnu in the sanctum. When he entered inside the sanctum, to his surprise Lord
Vishnu is in standing posture on a Shiva Linga Avudayar with 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 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 opened between 07.30 hrs to 12.00 hrs and 16.30 Hrs to
19.30 hrs.
CONTACT DETAILS:
Battar
Sri Venkat Rangam may be contacted pooja details. The contact numbers are
9486877896, 9486139289, 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 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:CLICK HERE
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