The only other temple were i have seen the perumal like this is in Parthasarathy temple in Triplicane, Chennai where the Parathasarathy is seen with his family.Īnother speciality is the Kal Garudan. It was a sight to behold the Perumal is in 5 different forms along with the Thayar. If yashodha was baagyasaali, then what about the azhvar. i was reminded of enna thavam seithanai yashoda. The bhattar told us that the Perumal in this shetram was the acharyan of Thirumangai azhvar performing the "panch samskaram" to the azhvar. The perumal in this divya desam is regarded as the acharyan for thirumangai azhvar. This is one of the divya desams wherein the Perumal in 5 different forms including Naraiyur Nambi.
Sri Saranayagi thayar samedha Sri Saranadha perumal thiruvadigala saranam. Naam pala janmam seidha karma, nammal intha kovilgalai sevikka mudinthathu. Intha Divya anubhavam made me to resolve to all the divya desams.Īzhvargal seitha bhagyam perumalai pattri pada pEru Kidaithathu. As i heard this, i could imagine the azhvar travelling on his knees and suddenly felt a pain and tears flowed from my eyes. The azhvar could not step on the salagramam and hence travelled to the temple on his knees. When the azhvar visited the divya desam, Perumal "salagramam soozha kaatchi aLithaaraam" - the Lord was surrounded by salagramam. The bhattar explained to us about Thirumangai azhvar's visit. The Lord and His consort in Nindra thirukolam were beautiful, a sight to behold. Saranayaki sametha Sri Saranatha perumal sannidhi was beautiful. The corridor was long and we had to climb several steps to reach the sannidhi. Thirucherai is another example of the big temples in the chola nadu. Since we had left early morning, we planned to reach ThiruCherai, the divya desam which was farthest from Kumbakonam town so that we can cover other divya desams as we travel back to the town. We did not have any plans but only to come back to Trichy by 4 pm so that we can visit Srirangam once again before we travelled back. The next day morning we left Trichy around 5.30 am by car to travel to Kumbakonam. Coming back after a long time, and I pray to Lord Aravamuthan to make me write more.