Friday 21 February 2020

Sri Vaagheeshvarar Temple / Vaageeswarar Temple / ஸ்ரீ வாகீஸ்வரர் கோயில், பட்லூர், Patlur, Erode District, Tamil Nadu.

03rd February 2020.
This Vaageesvarar Temple’s Visit was a part of Heritage Visit  to the temples, Hero stones and Heritage sites around Anthiyur and Athani, scheduled on 03rd February 2020. In this visit we tried to cover the ancient temples with inscriptions or with some Heritage value. 


Moolavar : Sri Vaageeshvarar
Consort   : Sri Soundarya Nayaki

Some of the salient features of this temple are….
The temple is facing east without any entrance arch or Rajagopuram. Balipeedam and Nandhi are under a meta colour sheet shed.  Moolavar is of swayambhu. There is no images in the koshtam. In the outer prakaram  sannadhi for Vinayagar, Arumugar, Chandikeswarar and Bhairavar. Ambal sannidhi is in the artha mandapam.
 
ARCHITECTURE
The sanctum sanctorum consists of sanctum, antarala and artha mandapam. Ambal is in artha mandapam facing south. The ardha mandapa pillars has the reliefs elephant worshiping Lord Shiva, Vali &  Sugriva fight, Vinayagar, etc,.

The pathabhandha adhisthana is built with stone and sanctum with ekathala vimana  and mandapam are built with brick.



HISTORY AND INSCRIPTIONS
There are 9 inscriptions recorded from this temple, which includes a separate stone inscription on a slab stone. As per the inscriptions this place was called as Pattil Oor.

The inscriptions belongs to 13th Century Kongu Chozha Veera Rajendran  ( 7 inscriptions ) and 14th Century  Hoysala King Veeravallalan –III ( one inscription ).

Veera Rajendran period inscriptions records the gift of 1 achchu towards to-wards construction of Maha mandapam by a Erode Rajaraja peruntheru  Merchant Mupperudayan Ponnambalavan, Sandhya Deepam by Pandya Vettuvar Punnathoorali’s daughter Paandaandi, gift of land by the villagers of Pattil to this temple, 3 Sandhya Deepam by Kodumbur Vettuvar Pillai, donation of Pattil village with Pasungannithazhai Eri and the land it irrigates, 3 Sandhya deepam by Vettuvar Periyathevan’s son Periya Pillai alias Periyathevan, privileges offered to the various Nadus and the temples of Kodumudi, Karur, Thirumukkudal, Venjamakudal and Thirumuruganpoondi and the donation made to Thirunanaa ( Bhavani Shiva temple ). The above temples are also mentioned in this temple’s inscriptions.

 Inscription on a stone slab
Inscription

TEMPLE TIMINGS:
The temple will be kept open between 08.00 hrs to 12.00 hrs and 16.00 hrs to 19.00 hrs.

CONTACT DETAILS:
Gurukkal may be contacted on his mobile number 9500397777 for further details.

HOW TO REACH:
This temple at Patlur is about 500 meters from Anthiyur – Ammapettai  and Bhavani – Vellithiruppur Road Junction.
The temple at Patlur is 22KM from Bhavani, 40 KM from Erode, 120 KM from Coimbatore and 400 KM from Chennai.   
Nearest Railway station is Erode.

LOCATION: CLICK HERE




 Kavasam of Bhairavar
Elephant worships Lord Shiva
  Pillar relief - Vali & Sukreevan fight
---OM SHIVAYA NAMA---

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