Thiruthani Murugan Temple

Thiruthani Sri Subramanya Swami temple

This temple @ Thiruthani needs no propaganda as it is one of the Renowned abode of Lord Muruga. This is my first blog on Lord Muruga & this visit is my first visit to this temple as well. This temple is said to have 325 steps. There is also road leading to the temple.

குன்றிருக்கும் இடம் குமரன் இருப்பிடம்

As the above tamil statement, wherever there is a hill, the residing deity is Lord Muruga or Subramaniya Swami, the Son of Lord Shiva.  Lord Muruga is seen as Tamil Kadavul or Lord of the Tamil people as He has lot of things to do with Tamil.

My Trip: 

   I actually had no plans to visit this temple. We actually visited a temple at Putlur near Thivallur and as I had this long time wish of visiting this temple, IT actually happened. 

அவனருளாலே அவன்  தாழ் வணங்கி 

As a blessing We(Myself & my husband) drove to this temple and we were the gifted to have darshan of the Lord as last ones as it was closing time. The temple is like every other Murugar temple on hill top. The Lord gave us Darshan as a King in Green colored dress. As the day before our visit was the occassion of Krithikai & Shasti together we could see lot of decorations in temple. One cannot miss seeing devotees in every directing chanting "Arohara அரோஹரா " and carrying Kavadi (காவடி ) for the Lord.

The Lords consorts Valli is seen in seperate sanctum to the Lords' left & Deivanai to his right. The Praharam is small one with Adi Thanigai velam ( The old deity) placed just behind the main sanctum in the praharam. There is also Durgai in the praharam as seen in every Shivan temple.

We could see the temple painted newly and there is also a new Gopuram under construction.

The view of temple from the road

The Gopuram under construction

தடங்கல்கள் நீங்க இந்த ஸ்லோகம் சொல்வது நல்லது.

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சத்ரு சங்கார வேல் பதிகம்

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For the Pathigam you can refer to my earlier blog:

Official website of the temple:

http://www.tirutanigaimurugan.tnhrce.in/

Vekkaliamman Temple, Trichy

Vekkaliamman Temple, Trichy

Vekkaliamman , Goddess Shakthi here is seated in Woraiyur without any roof on her top. Be it hot sun, or rain, she has the Sky as her roof. Trichy being a very hot city in Tamilnadu, she mostly is seated enjoying the heat of the sun.  She is believed to be more powerful goddess. The temple is a small one. Though there is no roof top for the Goddess, a Mandapam kind of temple is raised around the goddess.

There is a rectangular Arch at the very entrance and to you left you will find small sanactums (or Sannidhis)  for various Gods like Vinayagar, Murugan, Karuppannasami (who is the security God of the villagers/the area), Hanumar. after the darshan of all these deities, you can join the queue to have the darshan of the Goddess. There are also free as well as paid darshan.

People bring garlands, sarees, lemon garlands and the same is being offered to the goddess. We really enjoyed watching the goddess wearing different colors of saree within our darshan. We also enjoyed the Aarthi as we went during the evening arthi time I guess 6 PM.

People write letters to the goddess on an yellow paper which is placed in the sactum & is being tied before her. It is believed that the needs of the people are being addressed by the Goddess. I believe it as quite a stress buster for people and also a communication to the God.

One another thing I noticed as the highest offering is people pay for the Chariot & the Goddess comes around the sanctum in the evenings.

Note: You will have to take the bus from Chatram Bus stand that goes via Woraiyur. From the bus stand of Vekkalaiamman temple, You can take an Auto or walk to the teample which must be less than 1KM. we enjoyed the walk to the temple. There are lots of shops on the way and in front of the temple

From the Bus stop before you go to the temple, you will have to cross the Famous Nachiyar temple where Lord Renganathar comes ones in a year, gives his ring to Nachiyar & get caught by Renganayaki Thayar. Its a wonderful festival to be enjoyed.

Further reference:

http://temple.dinamalar.com/en/new_en.php?id=795
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vekkali_Amman_Temple