About 15 years ago an elderly relative urged me to visit this temple which was in a dilapidated stage and he told me it wont last long. I could not find more details. Today I could recollect the place and could visit the same when I visited Pondicherry.
Though I could not get more information of this temple I found that new construction has been done.
HOW TO REACH:
The temple is situated 15 kms from Pondy on the Villupuram road in a village called Marudhur . The winding narrow village road leads us to the temple and locals are eager to guide you. Sadly at 10 AM there were not many people around and the temple is being looked after by an elderly oduvar.I heard from him that Sri. Thirunavukkarasar has visited this temple.I read somewhere that records from 1056 AD in the Karandhai temple in Tanjore district there were 66 acres of land allotted to this temple by Raja Raja Chola.
It is very famous as a parihara sthalam with the Bhairava being very powerful. The Oduvar said if you pray to this lord I predict you will see results in 15 days!! such was his confidence
A placid natural uncared for pond in front of the temple
View of the temple from the pond. The Huge Nandi guards the temple entrance where in a huge Shivalingam rests in the main sannidhi facing SOUTH as is the Marudhambigai sannidhi a very rare feature. Shiva was manifested in a Marudha tree here (Arjun tree) hence marudhur. Both Shiva and Parvathi are equal in height . The whole temple was built with black granite which was available about 70 kms away ( all this data from Sri. Sathiya Narayanan on Google maps and from the Oduvar in the temple my gratitude to both of them and all credit to these two people for all the info regarding this temple)
The temple was consecrated by sri Parakesi munivar it seems
To the right you can see the Marudhambigai sannidhi
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Marudhambigai sannidhi
Murugan and Vinayaka sannidhi can be seen behind the main sannidhis.
I front of the Ambal sannidhi facing north are the sannidhis for Suryan, Chandran ,Kala Bhairava and the Navagrahas
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