thoo nilA muRRam - part 28 - sArngarAjan kOil sannithis - a plan

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thoo nilA muRRam - part 28 - sArngarAjan kOil sannithis - a plan

 

Dear bAgawathAs,

 

The northern veethi is the famous big street or periya

kadai veethi. This veethi has many moderen shops and as well as

banks, well equipped loding facilities, hotels etc. Sri Ramanujar

sannithi is situated in the corner of western and northern street.

Sri Ahobila muth is also situated in the northern street. Many

vessel business is also here. Kumbakonam is very famous for brass

vessels.

 

Many gOpurams are there in and around this temple. (There

are so many temples that are surrounding Sri ArA amuthan's Alayam).

There are also very beautiful mandapams that are situated in and

around the temple. The prAhArangaL of the temple are very neat and

beautiful. Sri periAzhwar wanted to play here in one of them with

Sri ArA amuthan as Sri krishnan in bAlyam and called the moon

also for the company. Such prAhAram is named as thoo nilA muRRam on

which the whole series is being written. Will elaborate on this

later at the end. The divya vimAnAs are very grand. One must be

very lucky to have a darshan of the samprOkshanam here.

 

perumAl sannithi itself is a thEr ! yes, it is said that

our lord came on HIS divine charriot that is pulled by several

horses and elephants. If those archeologists in india and abroad

have seen this very huge thEr or car of the Lord, the sun temple in

orissa will become ordinary in their minds. All these siRpams are

so beautiful. There are two dwAra bAlakAs whom look very very real.

One can see their eyes and feel so ! thAyAr sannithi is at the

southern side of the car in which perumAL is in. thAyAr sits in a

lotus that has 1000 petals.

 

There are AzhwAr sannithis, Sri AndAL sannithis, AchAryA

sannithis including swami Sri Desikan sannithi opposite to the

dwajasthambam. There are yAga sAlais. (The current one is in a very

bad shape and Sri Ahobila muth has undertaken to renovate this

completely). There are bAga sAlais, thiru paLLi ARai and kaNNAdi

aRai. There are two entrances to the perumAL sannithi on the car.

Few steps arranged similar to a stairs lead to each of these

entrances. (One has to climb the charriot the Lord is riding, to

have have a darshan of HIM). One is for the dakshinAyanam and

the other is for uttharAyanam. They are each opened for six months.

There is a very nice sqaure hall in front of Sri ArA amuthan

sannithi. Many AchAryAs must have done prayers there. There is a

garudAzhwAr sannithi at the eastern wall of this car. It is indeed

garduAzhwar who became this car itself. There is a small well in

the northern inner prAhAram. There is Sri Srinivasar here knonw as

pAdhALA SrinivAsar on whom a purAnam will be elaborated in the

later parts. This temple is 585 feet on the breadth on south and

north side, and 188 feet width in west and 221 feet width in east

approximately.

 

Sri kOmaLa vaLLi thAyAr samEtha Sri ArA amudhan thiruvadikaLE

saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan

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