The
Visit to this Sri Jyeshta Devi Temple at Veerapuram near Thirukalukundram was a
part of Heritage Visit to Veerapuram in Chengalpattu District on 16th
April 2023. In fact Veerapuram Village has
a rich history of more than 1300 years, since Pallava period. Some of the
Heritage structures and temples in the Village includes Koochileeswarar temple
/ Sri Veera mangala nathar Temple, Jyeshta Devi with Manthan / Kulikan and
Manthi, Oyyalamman Temple, Solaivazhi
Amman Temple ( a saptamatrikas Temple ) and Sengazhani Amman Temple.
Moolavar : Sri Jyeshta Devi with Manthan / Kulikan and Manthi.
Some of the salient features of this temple
are….
The temple is facing east with a
Tortoise ( stucco ) pond & Trishul.
Muneeswaran and Karuppanna Swamy are on both side of the entrance of the
temple and sanganidhi and Padma nidhi are at the entrance of Sanctum sanctorum.
Stucco images of Iravatham, Kamadhenu, Bala Thiripurasundari, Panchakalyani,
Ayyanar with his consorts, Yoga Prthiyangara, Yoga Varahi, Narasimhi and their
Vahanas are in the open mukha mandapam.
In Sanctum Jyeshta is with Manthan / Kulikan
and Mandhi on a flat stone. In addition to that Manthan / Kulikan and Mandhi
are separate individual sculptures are
also installed.
ARCHITECTURE
The Jyeshta Devi Temple consists of Sanctum
sanctorum and a mukha mandapam. The
sanctum sanctorum is rectangular in shape with an eka tala salakara Vimanam. The
temple was constructed with bricks in Gramiya style.
HISTORY AND INSCRIPTIONS
These Jyeshta Devi / Thavvai, Manthan /
Kulikan, Mandhi sculptures are unearthed during the renovation of the Shiva
temple. Maha Kumbhabhishekam was conducted after installation of Jyeshta Devi
on 11th September 2019. Latter the stucco images are added in the
mukha mandapam and again kumbhabhishekam was conducted on 23rd June
2021.
LEGENDS
During the process of churning thiruparkadal to
get amith, Jyeshta Devi came first. Kamadhenu, Iravatam, Asvam, Karpaga
Vruksham and Panchasanyam came latter. Maha Lakshmi came after and married to Maha
Vishnu as per the purana. Jyeshta Devi married to Sanieeswaran and had a son
and daughter called Manthan / Kulkan and Mandhi.
This temple is unique in nature since, Manthan
/ Kulikan and Manthi are as individual
idols, apart from combined sculpture of Jyeshta Devi with Manthan and Manthi.
It is believed that by worshiping Jyeshta Devi
can be get rid of Marriage and Child birth obstacles, Eval, Billi Sunyam /
Black magic, business obstacles, etc,. It
was learnt from Thiru Ramachandra Reddiar, who is also known as ChandraHasan,
that after construction of this temple more than 200 devotees has got benefited.
POOJAS AND
CELEBRATIONS
Apart from regular poojas, special poojas are
conducted on Sunday’s Rahu kala time ( 16.30 to 18.00 hrs ). One of the speciality is that, the Devotees will do the abhishekam through their own hands.
Lot of Rush will be there on Sunday Evenings.
TEMPLE TIMINGS
The temple will be kept opened during Morning
Pooja Hours ie 07.00 hrs to 10.00 hrs.
CONTACT DETAILS
Mr Chandra Hasan ( usually available on Sundays
) +91 98403 46076 and Suresh +919626297282 may be contacted for further
details.
HOW TO REACH
Veerapuram is about 7.6 KM from Anupuram Bus
stop, 09.00 KM from Thirukalukundram, 21 KM from Chengalpattu Railway Station,
19 KM from Mamallapuram and 74 KM from Chennai Central Station.
Nearest Railway station is Chengalpattu.
LOCATION OF THE
TEMPLE : CLICK HERE
---OM SHIVAYA NAMA---
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