About 1 Km away from the thirupattur Brahma temple as you travel along the wall of the temple you can see the Kasi Vishwaanatha temple on a hillock. This temple houses the Jeeva Samadhi of Sri.Vyagrapada,the saint with feet of a tiger.
How to reach: see my blog on the brahma temple for the route
Legends:
Saint Vyaghrapada was so enamored with this temple on his way back from Chidambaram that he settled down here not wanting to go even to Kasi!!. One time there was not enough water for puja. Daily Indra used to fly with ganga from kasi to Chidambaram So once Vyaghrapada asked indra to give some water for Siva puja . Indra refused and enraged the rishi stamped on the ground and created a depression in the shape of the “Tiger ‘foot “to create a pond that can be seen to this day.
The temple houses the jeevasamadhi of this sage with the dasavathara carved on the Brindavanam.
Suryan and Chandran worship the lord here hence there is no separate Navagraha sannidhi.
As you enter the rajagopuram you will see the brindavanam of Sri Vyaghrapada
You can see the brindavanam in front next to the Nandi of the temple this nandi faces the Visalakshi amman sannidhi .When you enter the praharam the lord is on the left facing east.The nandi of the main sannidhi can be seen on the right in the above pic
There is only one praharam and the various Koshta devathas are seen. 
The amman sannidhi has separate Koshta vigrahas like Iccha shakti,Gnanashakti, Kriya shakti, Vidya shakti , Siva durga and Chandikeshwari
The far wall of the Temple has various sea creature sculpted along with a dinosaur like animal!
There are five temples in tirupattur: Ayyanar, Brahma,Vishnu,
kasi viswanathar and Kailasanathar.There are evidences from near by rock cut caves that Mahendra pallava, Kulothunga chola and the hoysala kings have patronised these temples
A view of the Vyagra theertham which looks like a tiger’s foot 
The priest told me a legend that the Ayyanar cursed all the Brahmins in this village many hundred years ago that their livelihood will be stopped. slowly all the temples died due to want of maintenance and the priests all migrated. Since the temples have now been redone and the Kumbhabhishekam of the ayyanar also arranged they are hoping for better days.
In all a small neatt emple praying at the brindavanam of Vyaghrapada will help us in fulfilling our wishes
Dear sir. Indeed a very important information on this Great Siva Temple after darshan at sri Brahma
ReplyDeletetemple. That day being a FULL MOON day we were adviced someone to go this temple.
We went to worship Lord Kasi Vishwanathar and then to Sri Vishlakshi ambal shrines. Just as we moved around Sri Viagrabathar brindavan we saw the pile of rose garlands and placed on a green
salvai placed on the Sri Brindavan moved up and down.We took that as Ashirwad of the great siddha and desiple of LORD SIVA. We believe that in that Bridavan Lord viagrabatha is living and bless all who pray to him.We were thrilled and pray all day to him to help us out of lot of family and health issues. Indeed we could get going with good life.Wish to visit more times and get his blessings.
Great
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