Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Thiruvavaduthurai (திருவாவடுதுறை )

Thiruvavaduthurai..திருவாவடுதுறை

Thiruvavaduthurai temple is a very beautiful temple among the Shiva sthalas. It is called the temple for Sabha vimochanam ( Place for clearing all the Sins).

This temple is well known for the following
  1. Growing Nandhi
  2. Thirumular Thirumandiram
  3. White Natural Neem tree
  4. Sacred Fig that spread across
  5. This village has three rivers flowing through it

The residing deity is Lord Shiva named Masilamaiswarar .

My trip: I visited this temple one fine evening. We went by car with the aid of Google Navigator. Started from Kuthalam, visited Govindhapuram and on the way back to kuthalam went to this temple. It was around 6:40 PM I reached the entrance of this temple. The temple has a Pond (Kulam) in front of it. Just above the Kulam I saw the entire saptarishi Mandalam ( The sacred 7 constellations).
 The day being Pradhosham, I was lucky enough to get the Maha arathi of the Utsava murthi in Alankaram with all the Upa devathas (Vinayagar, Murugan & Thirumular).

As soon as you enter the temple the Nandhi will strike your eyes with its huge structure and Gigantic eyes and horns. It is said to be growing and has the ceiling of the Mandapam very close to its head.
No words to describe the devotional vibration that I had as soon as I entered the temple. This temple comes under the Thiruvavaduthurai Aadheenam. As it was dusk, & getting late, I was not lucky enough to visit the praharas  which is said to have upa devathas.

One must definitley visit this temple to feel the vibration of the SIVAM which had been flourisihng during the past of the Tamil History. This is the place where Thirumular has written Thirumandiram.


தென்னாடுடைய  சிவனே  போற்றி ! என்னடவற்கும்  இறைவா போற்றி  போற்றி
For more details on the distance from near by places to this temple visit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masilamaniswara_Temple,_Thiruvaduthurai

For more details about the Aadheenam:
http://temples.discovertamilnadu.net/tiruvaduthuraiadeenamhome.html


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