Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Tiruvelvikudi ManaVaaleshwarar temple-Kumbakonam- A Padal petra sthalam

By sheer providence  on a trip to Kumbakonam, I took a wrong turn at Aduthurai and ended up at this temple while trying to visit the Thirumananjeri temple (click here to see my blog on the Thirumananjeri temple).

It was a divine blessing as I came too know that the pre marriage Vedic homams were all conducted here for Shiva and Parvathy before their wedding at Thirumananjeri and we are supposed to visit this temple before visiting the Thirumananjeri temple.

How to Reach:

This temple is very close to the thirumananjeri temple and easily accessed from Aduthurai (for details see my blog on the Thirumanenjeri temple)

Legends of the temple:

The temple was the place where the vedic homam before the wedding was conducted. Those with delay in wedding should do homams here to expedite things.Compared to the Thirumananjeri temple there is no crowd here. the peaceful surroundings were enchanting    .

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The temple has  nice pond outside and the outer courtyard is well maintainedIMG_0004                             The main Shiva  Sri Manavaaleshwarar sannidhi is seen in front  facing east.He is a majestic Shiva Lingam almost 5 feet tall

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with Ambal Parimala Sugandha nayaki in the front facing south.The ambal is standing and is about 5 feet tall

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The outer praharam has a sannidhi where Shiva and parvathi are seen holding hands . The brass figures are exquisite but in need of better maintenance  IMG_0011

The koshta vigrahas are of Ganapathi, Agasthiar, NatarajaIMG_0012

, Dakshinamurthy,IMG_0015IMG_0014

Lingodbhava, Chandrasekhara and Ardhanareeswarar adorn the outer walls of the main sanctum.IMG_0017IMG_0018 

The Ardhanari is unique in hat the shakthi is depicted on the right half unlike the usual left .

There is an unique durgai and a bhikshandar IMG_0022IMG_0023IMG_0024IMG_0025

There is an unique eeshana lingam in its own enclosure and lighting a lamp here will help mitigate navagraha and marriage doshamsIMG_0029

 

The Bull image on the temple was very life like

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The well had living trees as posts to support the pulley

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The entrance to the ambal sannidhiIMG_0031IMG_0034

Inscriptions from the period of Sembiyan Mahadevi and Raja Raja Cholan and Parantaka Chola have been found in this temple.

The temple legend a shown above the Shivan sannidhiIMG_0030

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