Sri Durga Vigraha /ஸ்ரீ துர்கை விக்ரகம், IIT. MADRAS, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

15^th April 2019.

The place where the IIT Madras  established, was originally belongs to Tharamani and had many temples. After purchase of land by the Armenians and East India Company's Madras Government the people were evacuated and the temples were unattended.  This leads the temples ruined and some were disappeared in the thick forest.

In that the Durga Vigraham is one of them. Now Durga is under a banyan tree in IIT Madras Swimming pool complex. Vigraha was chiselled out of black granite stone.  An enclosure was constructed in recent years. Daily poojas are conducted by one Mr Arumugam, a retired employee of Swimming pool.

This Durga Vigraham was referred with Dr Nagaswamy. He is of the opinion that this Durga may belongs to 8^th Century  and may be one of the saptamatrikas group.

It is to be noted that the idol is wrongly identified as a Durga vigraha. Actually it is a male image. The image may be a Chandikeswarar. May be further studied, who could be...? 

REFERENCE:

The article written by Arun Ayyar, Harish Ganapathy and Hemanth C, alumnus of Indian Institute of Madras in consultation with Kanchi Sankara Mutt, Controller of RajBhavan and Dr Nagaswamy. The link to the article Click Here.

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Mr Arumugam who takes care of this shrine and Prof Sampath Kumar
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