Had
been to Vayalakkavoor in connection with the Tamil Jains Ahimsa Walk. After the
important event of installation of Mahavir image in a newly built small temple,
ventured in to the village for any other old temples or Heritage sites. The
Villagers guided me to this old Shiva temple.
Moolavar : Sri Vacheeswara Swamy
Consort :
Sri Ezhavar kuzhali Amman
Some
of the important features of this temple are...
The
temple is facing east with a 2 tier Rajagopuram. Balipeedam, Dwajasthambam, Rishabam are in front of Mukha mandapam. Vinayagar, Dakshinamurthy, Vishnu, Brahma and Durgai are in the deva koshtam.
In
the inner prakaram sannadhi for Somaskandar, Sridevi, Bhudevi sametha
Perumal, Sri Kasi Viswanathar & Visalakshi, Saraswathy, Annapoorani,
Agathiyar, Subramaniyar, GajaValli ( on the wall ) and Chandikeswarar. In the outer prakaram
sannadhi for Nagars and Navagrahas. Ambal
Sri Ezhava Kuzhali Amman is in the mukha mandapam. Lakshmi Hayagreevar,
Mahaganapathy, Dhandapani and Iyappan
are also in the mukha mandapam.
ARCHITECTURE
The temple consists of a sanctum, antarala, artha mandapam, maha mandapam and a mukha mandapam. The sanctum was built in simple padabandha adhisthana with three face kumuda. A combination of nagara and vesara vimana is on the sanctum.
HISTORY AND INSCRIPTIONS
12th to 13th Century Rajaraja Chozha-II, Sadaya Varman Sundarapandiyan-I and Kopperunchingan inscriptions are found on the sanctum walls. The
inscriptions speaks about the donation made to the temple for burning of perpetual lamp. The moolavar’s name is mentioned as Sri Varanavatheechuramudayar, Sri Varanavasichuramudayar. ( The inscriptions
are painted and with out proper lighting couldn’t get more details on the
inscriptions - Thanks to Vicky Kannan for providing me the above details).
TEMPLE
TIMINGS:
The
temple priest is living on the south side of the temple and there is no fixed
time of opening.
HOW
TO REACH:
A
Private bus passes through this village from Kanchipuram to Thandalam.
The
Village Vayalakkavoor is about 36 KM from Kanchipuram, 23 KM from Walajabad and
the walajabad is the nearest Railway station.
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autos are available from Thirumukkudal is about 15 KM.
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Dear sir, This post give us more information about our village siva temple, can you suggest which century this temple belongs too and also which dynasty this temple built.
ReplyDeleteThe present temple may belongs to 9th to 10th century built during Chozha period.. may be end of Pallava Period.
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