Ramaswamy temple, Kumbakonam
This is one another beautiful temple in Kumbakonam. Thi temple is close to the main temple of Kumbakonam, Adhi Kumbeswarar temple. As the name denotes, this temple is for Lord Rama, who is with his wife, brothers and his favourite devotee, Lord Hanuman. I was
I was told by one of my teacher that the specialty of the temple is that Lord hanuman is found playing Venna, the ancient classical instrument of South Indian music. This fact attracted me to visit this temple during my next planned visit to Kumbakonam & that happened quickly. We visited the temple in the morning. The temple is yet another sample for the architecture of the Vijayanagara Kingdom. The sculptures on the pillars stand peculiar and attractive depicting various incidents of the Hindu religion and puranas. A pillar has Ramar and Anjaneyar back to back. You can see several sculptures before you enter the main sactum, inside which Lord Rama stands with his wife and all his brothers. As in the picture of the great painter Raja Sri Ravi varma, Lord Hanuman , Rama's favourite devotee is found seated to the right side of Lord Rama's foot holding Veena in one of his hand and Rama Katha or Ramayana in another. Hanuman is Srava Vidhya Dhana Nipunar- As stated by the great Muthuswamy Deekshitar, one among the Music Trinity. It is said that Hanuman is Singing the ramayana story here.
Satrugna is on the left of Lord with a Samara fanning his brother, Bharatha holding the Royal Umbrella and Hanuman on the right and Lakshmana appears with his bow as usual.
One another attractive thing about this temple is that one can completely learn the Ramayanam or the Rama katha doing the pradhakshinam or rounds. If you do 3 rounds, you can complete Ramayana which has been depicted pictorially on the walls of the premises.
We got the Tulasi prasadam after the darshan.
Here are few pics of the temple gopuram and the great Hindu epic Ramayana on the walls of the temple.
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| Praharam showing the 2 other Gopurams |
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| Ramayana on the walls of the praharam |
Few useful Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramaswamy_Temple,_Kumbakonam
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