07, April 2015
It was an early Sunday morning. Birds started chirping after night's sleep. Health-conscious ladies and gents started their early morning walk ( Hoping to reduce their weight?) before the traffic started. College boys, three in one motorcycle ( without even washing their faces ) preparing for the Sunday cricket match in the Chennai city’s non-constructed lands. A fat man with a bat on his back also crossed me.
The sun was slowly rising above the Velachery railway bridge partially hiding his face in the clouds. I could not see any birds in the Pallikaranai marshland. The traffic is yet to begin. Through Tambaram Bridge reached the Mannivakkam Shiva temple. Sivachariyar was preparing for the Pooja since the temple was closed the previous day evening due to the Lunar eclipse. Went around the temple noting the details.
Moolavar Vimanam
Moolavar : Sri Manneeswarar
Consort : Sri Maragathambigai
Some of the important features of this temple are...
The temple faces east with an entrance arch. Dwajasthambam, Balipeedam and Nandhi mandapam are in the outer prakaram. Nandhi is facing east like Shiva. It was understood from the Sivachariyar that Nandhiamperuman participated in the war as per the request of Kulothunga Chozha.
Some of the important features of this temple are...
The temple faces east with an entrance arch. Dwajasthambam, Balipeedam and Nandhi mandapam are in the outer prakaram. Nandhi is facing east like Shiva. It was understood from the Sivachariyar that Nandhiamperuman participated in the war as per the request of Kulothunga Chozha.
Rishabam is facing east, the same direction as Moolavar
In the outer prakaram Sannadhi for Vinayagar, Chandikeswarar, Navagrahas, and Bhairavar.
Ambal is in a separate sannidhi in a standing posture facing south. From Outer Praharam to sanctum Mandapam entrance Dwara Ganapathy on the left and Dwara Subramaniyar on the right. The shrine has with sanctum and a mandapam. In Mandapam, Ganapathy, Sri Valli Devasena Subramaniar.
In Koshtam Vinayagar, Dakshinamurthy, Vishnu, Brahma and Durgai. In the sanctum, Moolavar is a little tall and Chandran and Suriyan are on the Kavasam.
Dakshinamurthy
HISTORY AND INSCRIPTIONS
As per Sivachariyar, the temple is more than 1200 years old. The temple was built during the latter Chozha period. There are no old inscriptions available, but there are recent inscriptions belonging to the 18th and 19th centuries at the base of the sanctum and a Vijayanagara Kayakas period inscription. ( Ref : Tholliyal nokkil Kanchipura mavattam )
Vijayanagara King Narasinga Rayan period ( 30th March 1500 CE ), an inscription records the donations given to Koppaiyaraja and made arrangements for the continuation of pooja ( ARE 1929-30, No 169 ).
The 1818 CE inscription records the construction of Thirukalyana Mandapam by a lady Mannipakkam Thondaimandala Thuluva Velalalar Periyalingappa Mudaliar & Pachchaiamman's son Ayyaswamy Mudaliar's wife and daughter of Punnaipakkam Arunagiri Mudaliar & his wife Se Sekappaththal.
Recent years epigraph
TEMPLE TIMINGS :
The temple is kept open for darshan between 07.00 Hrs to 10.30 Hrs and 17.30 Hrs to 19.00 Hrs.
CONTACT DETAILS :
Sivachariyar's Phone number is 9710422954 or 9176184262.
HOW TO REACH :
Town bus is available from Tambaram and 1 KM from the main road.
The buses to Kanchipuram via Valajah and Padapai Pases through Mannivakkam.
LOCATION OF THE TEMPLE: CLICK HERE
Entrance arch
--- OM SHIVAYA NAMA ---
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