VELUDHARAN TEMPLES VISIT : Thirumalaisamy Temple / Bhagwan Thirumalaisamy Temple / Bhagavan Thirumalaisamy Jeeva Samadhi Temple / Jeeva Samadhi Temple, Kavanthandalam, Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu.

Saturday, 18 April 2020

Thirumalaisamy Temple / Bhagwan Thirumalaisamy Temple / Bhagavan Thirumalaisamy Jeeva Samadhi Temple / Jeeva Samadhi Temple, Kavanthandalam, Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu.

15^th March 2010.

The visit to this Bhagavan Thirumalaisamy Temple / A Jeeva Samadhi Temple, Kavanthandalam, was not a part of the Shiva, Vishnu and Amman Temples Visit on the banks of river Cheyyar / Palar, scheduled on 15^th March 2020. During our Sri Silambeswarar Temple visit, I was told that this temple’s Perumal was brought from there. This temple is a little away from the hamlet, on the banks of river Cheyyar a tributary to river Palar. The approach to this temple is through a private teak wood tree forest.

Siddhar : Sri Thirumalaisamy

Siddar's Mother : Sri Kusalambal

Some of the salient features of this temple are....

This is a very simple and small temple facing east. Balipeedam and Garuda are in front of the Temple. There is no murtis in the koshtam.

ARCHITECTURE

The sanctum sanctorum consists of sanctum, antarala, and artha mandapam. A two-tier Vesara vimana is on the sanctum. The sanctum sanctorum adhisthana construction did not follow ancient methods with Jagathy, Kumuda, etc, instead, a typical village style was followed.

HISTORY

It was learned that this is a Jeeva samadhi of Thirumalai Swamy, who was born to Kusambal in a small Village near Dharapuram in Karur District. When he was on a pilgrimage near this place he asked for some straw for his bullock which pulled his cart to a Zamindar. The Zamindar mocked him. So left to Magaral and asked his disciples to construct a hermit under a tree. He did penance in the hermit. In the meantime his wife and mother came to this place and Thirumalai Swamy asked them to go on a pilgrimage. The Zamindar who mocked him became sick and came to Swamiji and begged his pardon. Swamiji pardoned him and cured him of the illness through Vibhuti. Swamiji asked him to build a temple. One special day Swamiji entered into the sanctum and disappeared. His mother also entered into Jeeva samadhi in the sanctum itself.

INSCRIPTIONS

During Chozha period, this place was called as Jayankonda Chozha Mandalathu Ootrukottaththu Thammanur Nattu Kavanthandalamana Chaturvedi mangalam.

As per the structure like Pillar bas-reliefs, Pushpa Pothyal without Vazhaipoo and the inscriptions this temple belongs to the 15-16^th Century Vijayanagara period and was renovated by one Kattuputhur Mr. Babu Reddiar during ( 1837 CE )19^th Century. Thanks to Pon Karthikeyan for reading the inscription. As per the inscription this place belongs to Magaral which is about 4 KM from this place. The original inscription reads as...