The uniqueness of ThErazhundhUr as one of the 108 Divya Desams: Part 1

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Dear BhakthAs :

 

Sriman Dileepan brought to our attention two days ago

the kaimkaryam at ThErazhundhUr and invited us

to participate in that ongoing kaimkaryam .

 

Although My village , Oppiliappan Koil is only 20 miles

away , I never had the darsana SoubhAgyam of the ArchA

mUrthy of ThErazhandhUr until dozen years ago . I had just

completed a 45 page article on the Sthalam from New York

base and at the end of that article prayed for Sri Gosakan

of ThErazhandhUr to bless me with His darsana soubhAgyam .

Two months later , my wish was fulfileld during a trip

to India on IBM business . At that time , I left a copy

of that manuscript at the sacred feet of Sri Gosakan

via archaka mukham . That manuscript was resting here all

these years. In the context of the 108 Divya desam Web pages

project coupled with the appeal from Sri Dileepan for us

to help with the project at this divya desam , I thought

it might be timely to summarize the contents of that manuscript ,

which deals mainly with the 45 beautiful paasurams of

Thirumangai AzhwAr on Sri Gosakan ( Sri Aamurvuiappan ),

the presiding deity of this divya desam .

 

Details on the sthalam and the beautiful images of

the Uthsavar and moolavar are housed in the home

pages on ThErazhundhUr created by Sri Dileepan .

The URL for those home pages is :

 

http://www.cdc.net/~dileepan/ther/therazhun.html

 

The history of that divya desam and related details

are nicely described there .You will immensely

enjoy a virtual tour of this divya desam there .

 

In my postings , I will focus mainly on the moving

anubhavams of Thriumangai at this KshEthram .

 

AzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,

Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan