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
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SHIVAYA NAMA---
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