Wednesday 5 December 2018

Sri Vacheeswarar Temple, Vayalakkavoor, Tirumukkudal, near Walajabad, Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu.

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02nd December 2018.
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).


 Lord Shiva's Name 

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.
Share autos are available from Thirumukkudal is about 15 KM.

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---OM SHIVAYA NAMA---

2 comments:

  1. 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.

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    1. The present temple may belongs to 9th to 10th century built during Chozha period.. may be end of Pallava Period.

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