15th March 2020.
The visit to this Chidambareswarar
Temple and Silambeswarar Temples are the part of Shiva, Vishnu and Amman
Temples Visit on the banks of river Cheyyar a tributary to river Palar,
scheduled on 15th March 2020. On the way to Sri Silambeswarar
Temple, we happened to cross this newly renovated Chidambareswarar Shiva
temple. Initially we thought this may be completely a new Temple, but we are
told that this temple is more than 1000 years old.
Moolavar : Sri Chidambareswarar
Consort : Sri Maruvar Kuzhaliammai
Some of the salient features of this
temple are....
The temple is facing west with
balipeedam and Nandhi. Vinayagar and Murugan are at the entrance of the main
sanctum sanctorum. In prakaram sannadhi for Maruvar Kuzhali Ambal sannidhi
facing South. There is no images in the
koshtas. There is no compound wall too.
HISTORY AND INSCRIPTIONS
It was told that this temple is more
than 1000 years old and renovated completely. Kumbhabhishekam was conducted
about a month back. Hope The Shiva Linga, Nandhi, Durgai, Chandikeswarar and
pranala are seems to be old. The Chandikeswarar is in the form of
bas-relief. As per the iconography of Durga the original temple may belongs to 12th
to 13th century.
Chandikeswara
Durgai
HOW TO
REACH:
This temple is about 14 KM from
Walajabad, 18 KM from Kanchipuram, 44 KM
from Chengalpattu Junction and 75 KM from Chennai.
Nearest Railway Station is
Chengalpattu.
LOCATION: CLICK HERE
SILAMBESWARAR
TEMPLE
This Silambeswarar
temple was in news about an idol of Indira or Murugan on Elephant was unearthed
from a field at Kavanthandalam. We thought
of exploring further on that. The temple structure is found in dilapidated
condition. Trees were grown on the structures. There are three sannadhis in
side the temple. The sannadhis are empty now and it was told that Perumal was
shifted to Bhagwan Thirumalaisamy Temple which is about 500 meters from this
temple. Out side the Temple structure
there are two idols and the one is a Chozha period Nandhi. The other one is the
newly unearthed idol. Indra or Murugan sitting on Elephant. The Idol seems to
be un finished and partly damaged. Couldn’t identify who is on the elephant.
The temple was
completely constructed with bricks. The style
of Vimana and the stucco images this structure belongs to an Amman or Ambal
temple. But what happened to Shiva Temple and what are the two sannadhis before
the main sanctum..?. The archaeological
excavation may throw some light on this. The Nandhi is the only proof that a Shiva
Temple might have been existed in this place.
LOCATION: CLICK HERE
---OM SHIVAYA NAMA---
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