24th
November 2019.
The
visit to this Sri Uthira Vaithiyalingeshwarar
Temple was a part of Pallava
and Choha period temples Visit scheduled on 24th November
2019. After Vembedu Sri Agastheeswarar,
on the way to Thiruporur happened to see this temple at the junction of three
roads with a tall Rajagopuram. Thinking
that this must be an old temple and might
have been reconstructed in the recent years, Went inside the temple and had the
darshan of Lord.
Moolavar
: Sri Uthira Vaithiyalingeshwarar
Consort : Sri Thaiyal Nayaki.
Some
of the salient features of this temple are…..
The
temple is facing east with a 5 tier Rajagopuram. Balipeedam, dwajasthambam and
Nandhi are after the Rajagopuram. There is another 3 tier Rajagopuram on the
south side opposite to Ambal sannadhi. Moolavar is of Swayambhu. Ambal is in the
Arthamandapa facing south. In
artha mandapam Vinayagar, Sekkizhar and Nalvar.
In the outer prakaram Vinayagar, Murugan, Gajalakshmi, Chandikeswarar,
Chevvai, Navagrahas, Nagars under Neem and Palm Tree ( Sthala Vruksha ) and
Bhairavar. The temple Pond Agathiyar
Theertham is on the back side.
HISTORY:
Since
there is no inscriptions and the temple was renovated completely, looking at
the pillars of the arthamandapa, the
temple may belongs to Vijayanagara or pre Vijayanagara period. The original temple may belongs to Chozha's period.
The
mukha mandapam called vasantha mandapam was built during 2003 and recent maha
kumbhabhishekam was conducted on 2nd February 2004.
LEGENDS
This
is a Chevvai parikara sthalam and is equivalent to Sri Vaitheeswaran temple
near Kumbakonam. Also
this is a Angaraka dosha nivarthi sthalam. It is believed that Lord Shiva will remove all the obstacles in the marriage.
Lord
Shiva gave darshan to Agasthiyar and also he gave the Kalyana kola darshan.
As
per the legend, The sage Agathiyar had done dhabas on Lord Shiva in this
place, which was once surrounded by the forest with trees. Lord Shiva wants to
make the Villagers to aware of sage Agathiyar and spread the communicable
decease. The Villagers do not know what to do and prayed to Agasthiyar to save
them. In turn Agasthiyar also prayed. Lord Shiva told him to create a pond and worship
him with the water. Agasthiyar had done
as per Shiva’s advice and gave the abhishek theertha to all the people of the Kattur Village. The
people got cured from all the deceases. It was told that even now no communicable decease
will affect the Kattur Village. Since Lord Shiva cured the deceases, he is
being called as “Vaithya- மருத்துவர்” and this
temple is on the northern part of Tamil Nadu,
“Uthira ( means North in Sanskrit) ” is prefixed to this temple’s name.
POOJAS AND
CELEBRATIONS
Apart
from regular poojas Vaikasi visakam, Navarathri, Karthigai deepam, Arudra
Darshan, Maha Sankranti and Panguni uthiram with Lord Shiva’s
thirukalyanam.
TEMPLE TIMINGS:
The
temple will be kept opened between 06.00 hrs to 11.00 hrs and 16.30 hrs to
20.00 hrs.
CONTACT DETAILS:
The
following persons M Jayapal 9444878797, P Punyakodi 9447536549 and K R
Sundaram 9884217301 may be contacted for
further details.
HOW TO REACH:
City
bus route no 551 Manampathi / Acharavakkam passes this place.
Kattur
is about 17.00 KM from Mambakkam via Kayar, 6.7 KM from Thiruporur and 35 KM
from Tambaram.
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