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 .
The temple has nice pond outside and the outer courtyard is well maintained
with Ambal Parimala Sugandha nayaki in the front facing south.The ambal is standing and is about 5 feet tall
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
The koshta vigrahas are of Ganapathi, Agasthiar, Nataraja
, Dakshinamurthy,
Lingodbhava, Chandrasekhara and Ardhanareeswarar adorn the outer walls of the main sanctum.
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
There is an unique eeshana lingam in its own enclosure and lighting a lamp here will help mitigate navagraha and marriage doshams
The Bull image on the temple was very life like
The well had living trees as posts to support the pulley
The entrance to the ambal sannidhi
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 sannidhi
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