thoo nilA muRRam - part 12 - Other perumALs of thiru kudanthai

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thoo nilA muRRam - part 12 - Other perumALs of thiru kudanthai

 

Dear bAgawathAs,

 

There are 12 "HUGE" temples situated in this city itself

having Sri ArA amudhan as their centre. Though not all those "HUGE"

temples are Srivaishnava temples, a list of mainly the SrivaishnavA

temples are presented below. One of them is for Lord Sri BrahmA

that one cannot see anywhere else in this boolOgam other than

pushkar. Almost each one of these huge temples have their own kuLam

or tanks as theertthams in it or adjacent to it. That itself is an

indication of the "neer vaLam" or fertility of this divya dEsam.

 

The other Srivaishnava kshEthrams that are situated in this

holy city of kumbakonam are:

1. Sri Chakra rAja perumAL kOil (built by Sooryan himself) (will

write in great detail on this later)

2. Sri VaradarAja perumAL kOil

3. Sri Lakshmi nArAyaNa perumAL kOil

4. Sri vEdha nArAyaNa perumAL kOil

(all these are all talked about in some purAnAs)

 

 

5. Sri Ramar kOil (will write a separate part on this)

6. Sri navaneetha Krishnan kOil

7. Several AnchanEyar kOils

8. Sri varAha perumAL kOil (thiru kudanthai dEsikan's Sri lakshmi

hayagreevar was here untill a few years ago when adiyen's uncle

gave the divya mangaLa vigraham to Sri Poundrika puram Andavan

Ashram in Srirangam)

9. Sri Ramanujar kOil

10. Srilaksmi nrusimhar kOil of Ahobila muth (poorvAchAryA's

brindhAvanams are there in it. Our family members are ubaya

kArALs here for more than a century)

11. Sri thiru mazhisai AzhwAr's brindAvanam

 

 

Other notable places are:

1. brahman kOil

2. Sri RagavEndrar's (of Sri mAdhvAchArya sampradAyam) guru

Sri Suchindrar's brindA vanam.

3. Sri RagavEndra temple

4. Sri Sankara mutt (used to be the head quarters for Sri kAnchi

sankara mutt untill 60's when Sri paramAcharyA of Sri kAnchi

mutt moved back to Sri kAnchi) Several brindAvans for previous

peetAthipathis of kanchi mutt are here in this complex. Some old

disputes say that this mutt comples originally belonged to Sri

SingEri mutt.

5. mahA maham temple and mahA maham tank are here (will write one

part on this later)

 

These are just a major few. Several annya devathA temples are there

around Sri Amuthan as a prathakshinam. The reasons that these

details are presented here are such that one must know that this

divya dEsam of Sri ArA Amuthan attracted everyone including the

AchAryAs of other faiths than Sri VishishtAdvaidam. Our AzhwArs and

AchAryAs delivered several pasurams and granthams on Sri ArA

amuthan. Both Sri Madhva AchAryAs and Sri Sankara AchAryAs have

loved Sri ArA amudhan with a great deal and spent their lives here

and performed several kainkaryams for Sri ArA Amudhan.

 

Sri kOmaLa vaLLi thAyAr samEtha Sri ArA amudhan thiruvadikaLE

saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan

 

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