thoo nilA muRRam - part 11 - logistics and panchakrOsa yAthrai

[Guest guest]

thoo nilA muRRam - part 11 - logistics and panchakrOsa yAthrai

 

Dear bAgawathAs,

 

This kshEthram is situated in tanjore district in tamil

nAdu. One can reach this holy city by a train from Madras, Trichy

or Madurai. From the railway station it is about 2 miles west. One

can take a cab or an autorikshaw or a cycle rickshaw from the train

station to the temple. Everyone knows if you say sArngapAni kOil.

One can also reach here by bus from anywwhere in tamilnadu. Trichy

and Chidambaram are connected by direct bus service every half hour.

There are also buses to Madras every hour. Madras is 8 hours by a

bus and 5 and a half hours by a car or private cab. It costs around

Rs 1800 (rate for 1999) for a to and fro trip by a cab from Madras.

Night train journey (Rs 150 ?) needs advance reservation of atleast

a month ahead.

 

Day time chOlan express and Janata express reach in evenings and

are often faster and not crowded if one can take the scorching sun.

One can stay here as abundant places such as hotels, chahtrams,

travel bangalows, state tourism complexes, are there to stay. While

staying here one can visit my abimAnana kshEthram Sri Boomi dEvi

samEtha Sri Oppiliappan sannithi and 19 other divya dEsams among

108 divya dEsams altogether totalling 21 divya dEsams. The chOla

nAttu divya dEsams amount to 40 among 108. Ofwhich all the 40 DD's

are within less than 4 hours travel. However there are 20 DD's that

can be seen from KumbakOnam itself by staying in kumbakoanm and

renting a cab for 3 to 4 days and cover 6 to 7 a day. These DD's

are all within a few hours (less than 2 hours each) travel.

Howvever there are 9 closeby divya dEsams that are in the immediate

vicinity and are collectively known as a dasAvathAram of Sri ArA

Amudhan HIMself. It is said that Sri ArA Amudhan did a dasAvathAram

during HIS arcchA avathAram itself.

 

They are:

 

1. Sri Oppiliappan kOil, or thiru viNNagaram

2. nAchhiyAr kOil or thiru naRaiyoor

3. Thiru chErai

4. nAthan kOil or thiru nanthi pura viNNagaram

5. thiru koodaloor or AuduthuRai perumAL kOil

6. thiru kabisthalam

7. thiru puLLam bootham kudi

8. thiru Athanoor

9. thiru veLLiam kudi

 

These temples are also in sitauted in somewhat a concentric

formation around Sri ArA amuthan like a pradhakshinam. They are

not only known as the dAsAvathAram but also known as the

nava ratthanams that garland Sri ArA amudhan.

 

It is delivered in "kumbakOnam mahAthmiyam" 58th chapter

several times that "in thiru kudanthai our Lord undertook

dasAvathAram 'AGAIN and AGAIN' for the sake of the dEvAs. Several

other kshEthrams are also present in this holy city itself. Many

bhakthAs come here and stay here and go around the local

Srivaishnava temples first and then go around to the other divya

desams around in the vicinity. This specific itinerary of

visting thiru kudanthai and the other encircling Srivaishnava divya

dEsams around it is known as "pachakrOsa yAthrai" in purAnAs.

 

Sri kOmaLa vaLLi thAyAr samEtha Sri ArA amudhan thiruvadikaLE

saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan

 

********************************************************************

 

-----------------------

Where to Send Donations

-----------------------

 

INDIA:

 

Members of the group in India, Europe, Bahrain, Kuwait and Rest

of the Middle East, and elsewhere in boolOgam may send their

donations to:

 

Cheques are payable to

"The Secretary and Treasurer",

 

mail to :

Tiruppani committee",

Sri L.Rajagopalan, MABT,

Retd Pricipal,

(Committee member)

12, Besant Road,

KUMBAKONAM 612 001

 

 

UNITED STATES & CANADA:

 

Checks should be made payable to

"SMSA, Inc"

 

Sri Vaishnava Seva Samithi

c/o Smt. Nagu Satyan

7821 West Alder Drive

Littleton, CO 80128-5522

 

Please write "Sarnga Pani kainkaryam" on the cheque.

 

 

All donations are elegible for tax deductible in their

respective countries where applicable

******************************************************************

 

 

_____________

Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com