This is the 93rd Devaram Paadal
Petra Shiva Sthalam and 39th sthalam on the north side of
river Kaveri in Chozha Nadu. It is believed that Lord Shiva came from a palm
leaf, hence this place is called as Panandal. This Temple was called as
Thiruthadagai eecharam and Thadakecharam.
In Periya Puranam,
Sekkizhar mentions that Thirugnanasambandar Visited this temple after
worshipping Lord Shiva of Thiru Senjalur
இன்இசை வண்தமிழ்பாடி ஏத்தியேநல்நெடும் பதிஉளோர் நயக்க வைகியபின்னர் வெண்பிறை அணிவேணிப் பிஞ்ஞகர்மன்னிய திருப்பனந்தாள் வணங்கினார்
Thirugnanasambandar, Aiyadigal Kadavarkon Nayanar and
Vallalar has sung hymns in praise of Lord Shiva of this temple.
கண்பொலி நெற்றியினான் திகழ் கையிலொர் வெண்மழுவான் பெண்புணர் கூறுடையான் மிகுபீடுடை மால்விடையான்விண்பொலி மாமதிசேர் திருசெஞ்சடை வேதியனூர்தண்பொழில் சூழ்பனந்தாள் திருத்தாடகை
யீச்சரமே...... திருஞானசம்பந்தர்கரம் ஊன்றிக் கண்இடுங்கிக் கால்குலைய மற்றோர்மரம் ஊன்றி வாய் குதட்டா முன்னம் – புரமூன்றும்தீச்சரத்தால் செற்றான் திருப்பனந்தாள்
தாடகையஈச்சரத்தான் பாதமே ஏத்து...... ஐயடிகள் காடவர்கோன் -“தருமமனந்தான் மலரை மருவிப்போர் வாழும்பனிந்தாளிற் பாலுகந்த பாகே...... திரு அருட்பாகல்லா மனத்துக் கடையேனை ஆண்டு கருணை செய வல்லா யென்றுன் பதம் வந்தடைந்தேன் வினைமாற்றிடுவாய்செல்லாங்குழல் மலர்ச் செவ்வாய் வரைகுயச் சிற்றிடைசேர்நல்லாய் பனசை நகர் வாழ் பெரிய நன்னாயகியே....... பெரியநாயகியே மாலைMoolavar :
Sri Chenchadaiyar, Sri Thaalavaneswarar, Sri Jadaathar, Sri Aruna Jadeswarar, Sri Thaalapureeswarar.Consort :
Sri Birukandha Nayagi, Sri Periyanayagi, Sri Thaalavaneswari.
Some of the important features of this temple
are........The temple is facing east with a 7 tier
Rajagopuram. Balipeedam, Dwajasthamabam and Rishabam are after the rajagopuram.
A new mandapam was built keeping Balipeedam, Dwajasthambam and Rishabam at the
centre. The sanctum sanctorum consists of Sanctum, antarala and artha mandapam. Stucco
Dwarapalakas are at the entrance of the artha mandapam. In the sanctum
Moolavar is of swayambhu. In Koshtam Narthana Vinayagar, Dakshinamurthy,
Lingothbavar, Brahma and Durgai.
In Aasthana mandapam Urthuvadhandava
moorthy. In prakaram Subramaniyar, MahaLakshmi, Panchabuta Lingas, Bhairavar,
Suryan, Chandran, Sapthakannis, Kungilikalaya Nayanar Sannadhi, Chokkanathar,
Narthana Vinayagar, Navagrahas, Chandikeswarar and 63 var /Arupathu Moovar.
In the outer Parakaram sthala Vruksham, two male
palm trees, under that there is Shiva Linga
in slanting position. Ambal is in a separate Temple with 3 tier Rajagopuram
facing east.
ARCHITECTURE The temple consists of sanctum sanctorum, antarala, ardha mandapam, maha mandapa, and mukhaa mandapam. The Sanctum Sanctorum is ona prati bandha adhistanam with jagathy, vrudha kumudam, prativari.
HISTORY AND
INSCRIPTIONSSince, Thirugnanasambandar has sung hymns in
praise of Lord Shiva of this temple, the original temple was existed before 7th
Century as a brick temple. The same was reconstructed as a katrali / complete
stone temple, by Nakkan tharani. As per the inscriptions this temple was called
as Thiruthadagai eecharam, Thiruthadakecharaththu Perumal, Thiruthadaka
Eecharamudaya Nayanar and Lord Shiva was called as Thadakecharaththu Mahadevar.
There is a Temple for Kungiliya kalaya Nayanar, on
the south side of West Rajagopuram in the 2nd Prakaram. And the
inscription records that this temple was constructed by a person whose name is
also Kungiliya kalaya Nayanar and he is praised
for his Bhakthi on the Nayanar and his service. From Kulothunga
Chozha-I, period inscription records that Kungilikalaya Nayanar’s wife’s name as
Neelayi.
One of the
inscription ( a part ) records
that Thiruppanandal Nakkan Tharani constructed this temple and donated Land for
the service and maintenance. Amman temple was constructed with stone by Venkoorudayar
Anbarkkarasu Marudhamanickam alias Villavan Rajan. As per the Kulothunga
Chozha-I period inscription, Ambal was called as Periya Nachiyar
The Vijayanagara king Devaraya Maharayar’s
son Mallikarjuna’s period Saka 1369 ie 1447 CE, inscriptions records that
Karambichettu Narayana Battar of Idavai, donated a land to this Thadagai
Eecharathu Peruman’s Vaikasi month festival.
Kulothunga period inscription near madapalli
records the existence of a mada temple called Agneecharam in the same Village.
One of the Chozha period inscription records that
there was a Palace at Gangaikonda Chozhapuram during Rajendra Chozha-II.
Summaries of twenty seven inscriptions of Urudaiyappar temple and
Solidyappar temple at Thiruppananthal in Kumbakonam taluk and Tanjavur District
are given here. All the records are in Tamil language and script, few words are
written with Grantha words. Kings name, Regnal year and Historical year are
given with it. These inscriptions are published in Tamilnattu Kalvettukal-VI,
Kumbakonam Vattam. Only important inscriptions details are given below.
16/2014. Parantaka Chola 1 – 28th regnal year 935 CE. Registers a gift of land
after being refined it with a well to the deity Perumanadigal who was pleased
to stand in Thiruppananthal, a devadāna village of Vadagarai [Northern Bank] in
Manni-nādu, by the mother of Chōla mädeviyär, Queen of the Chōla King
Kōpparakēsarivarman.
17/2014. Rajakesarivarman [Aditya chōla 1] – 3rd regnal year - 874 CE. Last few lines are lost.
Seems to record some arrangements made by the assembly members of
Thiruppananthal, a brahmadeya village of Vadakarai in Manni-nādu, for the
food-offerings to the deity of Thiruvanantisvaramudaiya Mahādēva temple in the
same village.
18/2014.
Rajendra chōla 2nd regnal year 11th
century CE. Gift of money [Thirty Coins]
to burn a perpetual lamp in the temple of Thiruvananthisvaramudaiyar temple in
this village by certain Ganapathy Adittan from the market of horse riders. The
gifted money was received and accepted to burn that lamp during the day and
night in the temple by three Sivabrahmanas of this temple.
19/2014. Rajakesarivarmar [Aditya Chola -I-18th regnal year 889 CE. - Registers a gift of
ninty sheep for a perpetual lamp to the temple of Thiruttadakai Isvarattu Mahādēva
Bhattara in Thiruppanantha! which was a devadāna village in Vadagarai
Manni-nādu, by certain Kovan Amudhan, a native of Karuppur in the same nāḍu.
20/2014. Parantaka chōla I - 29th regnal year 936 CE. Records a gift of ninety
sheep for a perpetual lamp to the temple of Thiruttaḍakai isvarattu
Mahādēva at Thiruppananthaļ a dēvadāna village in Vadagarai Manni-nada, by
Iraiyan Madevan of Kumāramangalam in Ambar-nādu.
21/2014. Parantaka chola I 29th regnal year 936 CE. Damaged and few lines are
lost at the end. Gift of the land to the deity of Perumal in Thiruttaḍakai Isvaran of
Thiruppananthal for the food-offerings during the mid-night worship by Kaman
Thali, a chief and native of Karambiyam in Eyi-nadu.
22/2014.
Kulottungachōla- I’s 11th regnal year
1081 CE. Built in at the beginning and end. Begins with the introduction. Pugal
Sulntha Punari etc., Registers the order of the king granting the tax called
Ulvari for the village Rajendranallur, which was originally a brahmadeya and
was converted in to a taxable land in the reign of Virarajendra. The
inscription details the several stages of administrative procedure gone through
in this connection in the time of king Rajendradeva in his 11th year
rule, which again is recounted in the time of his younger brother Virarajendra
and finally engraved on stone in the form of the present inscription in the
time of Kulottungachōla- I.
23/2014. Kulottungachōla-1’s 29th regnal year 1099 CE. Registers the
sale by a Sivabrahmana, who had the Kani right in the temple, of his right of worship
on 4½ days in the month to recompensate a portion of money which was unable to
pay towards the misappropriation of Gold and Silver ornaments, Bronze
utensils etc., belonging to the temple. It is stated that the Sivabrahmanas of
the temple of Thiruppananthal, misappropriated of jewels and utensils of the
temple on three different occasions and had been found out, when the temple
treasury was inspected and examined by the officials. The king ordered to
collect the total value of the thefted items from the culprits. While the total
value had been calculated as 540 Kasu, one among the three culprits called
Pandan Kumarasamy unable to pay his portion of the amount. So he decided to pay
from the sale of his worshipping right of 42 days in every month in the temple
of Tatakesvarā So he prayed to the Maheswaris to receive the money to set right
the amount, which he had to pay.
24/2014. Rajarajachōļa II regnal year lost 12th century
CE. Records a grant of land by a large number of individuals for laying out a
road called Rajagambiran Thiruvidhi through which the deity of the Thiruttaḍakai Isvaramudaiya
Mahadeva temple of Thiruppananthal had to be taken in procession to the river
Kollidam for sacred bath on festive occassions. On both sides of the road 750
coconut trees were to be planted and protected to derive income from them to
spent towards lights and other expenditures in the temple...
25/2014. Malligarjuna Mahārāya Saka 1369-1447 CE. Badly
damaged and unfinished. Registers a gift of land, free of taxes for a service
called Angarangabboga to the temple. Karambichchetty Narayana Bhattar, native
of a chaturvedimangalam of Idavaipparru. Thiruppananthal was listed as a
Taniyur in Seyanga nallurpparru in Manni-nadu, a sub-division of Virudharaja
bhayankara valanādu.
26/2014. Rajarajachōla 11 – 18th Regnal year 1164 CE. Registers a sale of land
to a certain Kungiliyakkalaiyar alias Aliyaviratankondar Thäinum Piriyäthär for
one thousand Kasu by an individual called Senthan Küttaduvan alias Rajaraja
vangāra muttaraiyan, who had Pallikkani in the Pennagadam alias Mudikondachōla
chaturvedi-mangalam, a brahmadeya and a Taniyür in Vadagarai Virudharaja
bhayankara valanādu.
27/2014. Vijayanagara king- name list - Saka 1366, 1444 CE.
Badly damaged and unfinished. Seems to the sale of two villages to the temple
for some hundred of Varahan and rested in the temple treasury.
28/2014. Rajarajachōla- III - 3rd regnal year - 1218 CE. Seems to the order of
the king to the officials to the gift of land as tax free for conducting regular
worship to the deity of Thiru Ajanisvaramudaiyar temple, on the request made by
some persons that the gift of land would be given as it has been made by in
earlier days.
29/2014. Kulottungachōla -II – 12th century CE.
First few lines and some letters of each line are damaged. Gift of some land
with tax-free to the temple of Ajanisvaramadaiyar and also sixty Kasu for
making Jewells [to the deity of the temple]. Refers the 15th ர்egnal
year of Vikramachōladeva.
30/2014. Kulottungachōla -III's – 8th regnal year -
1185 CE. Built in at the beginning Gift of land, exempted from tax for
offerings to the images of Thirukkaḍavür
Kungiliyakkalaiya Näyanär and other Saiva devotees set up in the temple at
Thiruppananthal by a person bearing the same name [See No. 14]
31/2014. Kulottungachōla -III's – 9th regnal year 1187
CE. Few lines are lost at the end. Records a gift of land to the
Adichandèsvaradeva kanmins of the Amman temple called Thirukkämakkottamudaiya
Nachchiyar in the Thiruttidakai Isvaramadaiyar temple, as danmadira by the
assembly of this village Thiruppananthal
32/2014. Kulottungachōla –III’s, 9th regnal year 1187 CE. Badly
damaged. - Registers the gift of four cows for bathing the god Mahadeva daily
with Panchagavya in the temple of Thiruppananthal [See No. 221
33/2014. Jatavarman Sundara Pandya - year lost - 13th century CE. Built in at the end. Records the gift of 100 Kuli of land
Thirunamattukkani for the expenditure of the food-offerings. Sandal paste, oil
for lamp, and the persons who bear Sripatham in the festival days of the
Nachchiyar temple in the Thiruttadakai Isvaramuḍaiya nayanär, to the
Adichandèsvaradevã by the assembly of the village. Grooves and flower garden
were also existed in the above said land.
34/2014. Veerapandyadeva - [2]5th regnal year 1278 CE.
Records a gift of 312 Kuli of land to the Thiruttaḍakai isvaramudaiyar
temple by the residents of the village after purchasing it from the village
assembly.
35/2014. Kulasekhara Pandya- II - 2nd regnal year - 1237 CE. Built in at the
beginning. Registers a sale of 2500 Kuli of land to the temple at
Thiruppananthal, by the assembly of the same village, which was owned by them
as Brahmadeya in Manni-nadu, a sub-division of Vadakarai - Virudharaja
bhayankara valanādu.
36/2014. Kulottungachōla-III, 9th regnal year 1186 CE.
Built in at the beginning and other portions are damaged. Records the gift of
money and cows for the bathing ceremony with Pancha-gavya to the deity of the
temple in Manni-nadu, a sub-division of Virudharāja bhayankara-valanādu
37/2014. Vijayanagara King Immadi ......... Saka 1369 - 1447 CE.
Some words are damaged. Gift of land for celebrating the festivals of Margali Thiruvadirai and Thiruveluchchi in the
temple at Thiruppananthal. The land was situated in the place called Idavai
alias Pandyanai Venkandachōlach-chaturvedimangalam.
38 /2014. Vikramachōla – 9th regnal year 1126 CE.
Records the order of Mukkokilanadigal a queen of Vikramachōla, regarding the
using of water of the tank called Irunügruppathinaruvan-kulam without misusing, dug in the village by certain Thiruvaiyaru-Devan alias
Rajendrachola-Pallavaraiyan, a chief of Vēlür.
39/2014. Kulottungachōla-I’s 11th regnal Year 1181 CE. Records an agreement made
by two Sivabrahmanäs of the temple of Thiru Ajanisvaramudaiyar to burn two
perpetual lamp, for the money five Kasu received by them from two shepherds of
the village.
41/2014. Chōla 12th Century CE. characters. States that an
individual called Anbarkkaraisu - Marudamanikkam alias Villavarajan of Venkür
who consecrated the image of Devi [in the temple].
The temple is under the Administrative control of
Dharmapura Adheenam. There is a mutt called Sri Kashi Mutt established by Kumaragurubarar.
A Tamil college is being run by this mutt.
Ref:Tamilnattu Kalvettukal-VI, Kumbakonam Vattam.Maha Kumbhabhishekam was conducted on 06th
July 2003.
Inscriptions
Kanchipuram Pachiappa Mudilar's inscription
LEGENDSLord Shiva was worshipped by Brahma, Maha Vishnu,
Indran, Iravatham, Agasthiyar, Suryan, Chandran, Adhiseshan, Vasuki’s
daughter Nagakanni also called as Sumathi and her husband Arithuvasan, Thadagai
and Kungiliya kalaya Nayanar.
It is believed that Ambal received the Gnana
Upadesam from Lord Shiva of this temple. Hence this temple is called as “Upadesa
Sthalam”.
There are marks found on the Shiva Linga which
indicates that, Shiva bend and received the Garland from Thadagai and
Kungiliya kalaya nayanar who made it straight using a rope. In one legend
Kungiliya kalaya Nayanar’s son was expired, When he was taken to the cremation,
Vinayagar intervened and asked him to bathe his son in the Nagakanni Theertham.
After taking bathe his son came alive. 
Kungiliya kalaya nayanar straitening Shiva Linga
In Prakaram two male palm trees there with a
Shiva Linga in slanting position. The story behind this legend is as... A lady called Thadagai, daughter of
a demon worshiped Lord Shiva of this Temple for Child boon. While she was garlanding,
the Shiva Linga under the Palm Tree, she holds her / saree dress with her elbow and offered the garland. To ease her to
garland, Lord Shiva leaned forward to accept the garland. There is a painting
depicting this story, in the 16 pillar mandapam. Latter Kungiliya kalaya Nayanar
made it to straight, through a rope tied on his neck.
மாலைசாத்துந் தாடகை மானங் காப்பான்
தாழ்ந்து பூங்கச் சிட்டீர்க்கும் பீடுறுகலயன் அன்பின் நிமிர்ந்தஎம் பிரான் ஊர் ஈதா ...... திருவிளையாடல் புராணம்
Thadagai worshiping Lord Shiva 
POOJAS AND
CELEBRATIONSApart from Regular poojas, special poojas are
conducted Annual Brahmotsavam in the month Chithirai ( April – May ), Aadi Pooram in the month Aadi ( July – August
), Theerthavari at Brahma Theertham on new moon day in the month Avani ( August
– September ), Navaratri in the month Purattasi ( Sept – October ), Skanda
Sashti and Annabhishekam in the month Aippasi ( Oct – November ), Maha
Shivaratri in the month Masi ( Feb – March ) and monthly pradoshams.
TEMPLE TIMINGSThe temple will be kept opened between 06.30 hrs
to 12.00 hrs and 16.00 hrs to 21.00 hrs.
CONTACT
DETAILS:Mobile and land line numbers+91 94431 16322, +91
99658 52734 and +91 435 245 6047 may be contacted for further details.
HOW TO
REACH :This place Thiruppanandal is on the way to to
Kumbakonam from Villupuram, Chennai after Sethiathoppu. Buses are available
from Mayiladuthurai and Kumbakonam.The temple is 20 KM from Kumbakonam, 29.5 KM from
Mayiladuthurai, 42 KM from Sirkazhi, 58 KM from Thanjavur and 260 KM from
Chennai. Nearest Railway Station is Kumbakonam.
LOCATION OF
THE TEMPLE : CLICK HERE
Ambal Temple Rajagopuram
Ambal Shrine
Durga
Bhairavar
Gajasamharamurthy
Tripuranthagar
Beautiful dress
Murugan
King with his wife and an attendant
Saptamatrikas
Thirupanandalal Mutt---- OM SHIVAYA NAMA ---
கல்லா மனத்துக் கடையேனை ஆண்டு கருணை செய
Inscriptions
Kanchipuram Pachiappa Mudilar's inscription
Kungiliya kalaya nayanar straitening Shiva Linga
பீடுறுகலயன் அன்பின் நிமிர்ந்தஎம் பிரான் ஊர் ஈதா
Thadagai worshiping Lord Shiva
Ambal Temple Rajagopuram
Durga
Bhairavar
Gajasamharamurthy
Tripuranthagar
Beautiful dress
Murugan
King with his wife and an attendant
Saptamatrikas
Thirupanandalal Mutt
---- OM SHIVAYA NAMA ---
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