Thursday 14 September 2017

Sri Thandaveswarar Temple / Choleeswarar Temple, Kolumam near udumalpet, Tiruppur District, Tamil Nadu.

10th Sep 2017.
This is one of the Shiva & Vishnu temples constructed during 13th century by Kongu Chozha King Veera Rajendran ( 1207 CE to 1256 CE ) on the banks of river Amaravathi to get rid of the Kiraka dosham ( a Solar eclipse happened on his birth day ).


Moolavar    : Sri Choleeswarar or Sri Thandaveswarar
Consort      : Sri Brahan Nayaki

Some of the important features of this temple are...
This temple is facing east with a mottai gopuram & an entrance arch on the south side. Dwajasthambam, balipeedam and Rishabam are  immediately after the entrance arch.

In the outer prakaram sannadhi for Vinayagar, Agnisar, Chandikeswarar, Kala Bairavar, Navagrahas, Shanieswarar, Suryan and Naalvar.

Amman is in a separate temple facing the same direction of moolavar. A Thavvai panel is installed in front of Ambal temple. Sabha mandapam is in an elevated level with steps to climb.

ARCHITECTURE
The temple consists of sanctum sanctorum, antarala, artha mandapam and a mukha mandapam. In sanctum koshtam Dakshinamurthy and Durgai.



HISTORY AND INSCRIPTIONS
The 13th century inscriptions are found around sanctum walls, kumudam and sabha mandapam adhishtanam kumudam also. The inscriptions mainly speaks about the donations given to the temples.
  



TEMPLE TIMINGS:
The temple will be kept opened between 07.00 hrs to 12.00 hrs and 16.00 hrs to 20.00 hrs

HOW TO REACH:
Kolumam is about 20 KM from Udumalpet and bus is available from Udumalpet.
Nearest Railway Station is Udumalpet.

LOCATION:CLICK HERE


 View of mukha mandapam with Nandhi mandapam

 View of mukha mandapam with Rishaba mandapam




 Sabha mandapam
 Jyeshta Devi
---OM SHIVAYA NAMA---

1 comment:

  1. you have highlighted about the temple, but no information absolutely about the type of dosas that are pacified at this particular temple

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