pilgrimage to tiruvaheendrapuram

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Dear Srimathi Smita Ajay,

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>Wish you best of luck and God speed in your pilgrimage. From here in

>Kuwait I quite envy you.

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>adiyEn,

>Sudarshan

 

I join with Sriman Sudarshanin wishing you a delightful

visit to ThiruvahIndrapuram . It is a temple town and has no

hotels or places for stay unless you know some families there

to stay with .For convenience and proximity , either Cuddalore

or Chidhambharam are better places with hotels . Chidhambharam

has few more choices .PondichEry is a lovely place

to use as a base , since it is more used to " tourists

from West".

 

As Sriman Sudarshan suggested , you should enjoy every sannadhi there

and pray to Sri Bhagavaan HayagrIvan for JnAnaanandham . Sriman Mani

VaradarAjan 's lovely Home pages on this divya desam is a wonderful guide

to this sthalam . His recent assembly of the sthOthrams of Swami

Desikan and the references therein by Sri N.Krishnamachari , who

is doing yeoman service are important background materials to

browse and keep in mind .

 

Regarding KshEthrams near by , there are quite a few with in 40

mile radius . The extent of coverage of them depends on your time

availability . At Chidhambharam is the Sannidhi of Thillai

Thirucchitthira Kudam Govindha Raajan about whom Thirumangai

has sung about . Sri Murali Rangaswamy has summarized the

Kulasekara AzhwAr's SampUrNa RaamAyaNa paasurams on

this Emperuman . This KshEthrem is not toofar

from ThiruvEndhipuram . Between Chidambharam and Mayavaram

( ThirumaiylAduthuRai)is TherazhundUr ( Sri Gosakan )

and SeerkhAzhi . In and around the town of SeerkhAzhi are

twelve divya desams celebrated by Thirumangai . Sri TaadALan

at SeerkhAzhi and the 12 sthalams known collectively as

ThirunAngUr divya desams are there .You have to take a local

Bhattar with you to make sure that you get to these temples

in the appropriate pujA Kaalams .A whole day would be needed

at minimum. You can return to Chidhambram for rest .A rented taxi

would be the most appropriate transport .

 

The next stop after SeerkhAzhi would be the temple town of

KumbhakONam to visit the shrines of AarAvamudhan , Oppiliappan ,

NacchiyAr Koil , AdhanUr , PuLLambhUthangudi , ThirucchERai ,

ThiruveLLiyangudi et al . Excellent accomodations are

available at KumbhakONam .

 

Hope this helps ,

V.Sadagopan