thoo nilA muRRam - part 27 - sArngarAjan kOil veethees - a plan

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thoo nilA muRRam - part 27 - sArngarAjan kOil veethees - a plan

 

Dear bAgawathAs, (*****)

 

The thiru kudanthai kshEthram is never destroyed in praLaya

kAlam. This was created in the Athi kAlam. This holy temple city is

the nucleus of the entire world. This holy city is never destroyed

in any kalpa. A kalpa is made of 72 chathur yugAs. A chathur yuga

is made of 4 yugAs in which our lord takes several avathArams of

which the dasAvathArams are the most popular ones.

 

"Adi sittham mahA kshEthram kalpAnanthEshoo samsthitham"

--- 63rd chapter, kumbakona mahAthmiyam

 

We intend to present the details of the surroundings of the

temple inorder to show how closeley every walk of life is knitted

closely with the temple of Sri ArA amuthan at the center of the web.

 

The temple of Sri sArnga rAjan is situated somewaht in the

center of this whole city. As presented earlier Sri sArnga rAjan is

very special in many ways. For such a very special lord there were

several sepcial ursavams, nitthya ursavam, and naimitthikOthsavam,

and such several ursavams that were *originally* planned and were

conducted. There are several buiuldings that are built all around.

AzhwAr pasurams used to call these as mAda mAligai. The streets

that are surrounding this temple are sannithi veethi at the east

and main entrance. Thiru kudanthai Srimadh AndavAn used to live

here in his poorvAsramam. Keezha veethi is running parallel to east

and the thEr or car is stationed here. There are two cars for this

temple. Both are stationed here.

 

The southern street or thErkku veethi poRRAmarai kuLa

veethi is situated on the southern side of the temple. There is a

shivaite temple known as "eZhai sOmEswaran temple" that shares some

portion of Sri ArA amuthan temple's compound. A shaivite chola must

have been the reason for this sharing. What was originally belonged

to Sri ArA amuthan in the southern side was sliced vertically and

given to this temple as per some natives of kumbakonam.

 

The famous poRRamarai kuLam in which the amirtha kudam was

stationed during pralayam is situated in this street. The special

amirtham and the gene for shrusti is protected and safekept here in

this tank. So there is no need to tell or write about the palan by

doing a snAnam or prOkshanam in this tank. One must do atleast have

a darshan of this tank and atleast do "prOkshanam or sprinkle the

water on their head with "sincer bhakti" if for some reason one can

not do a snAnam. One can access the tank through this street easily.

 

This is a kadai veethi and many shops are situated in this

and some are even carved into the peripheral wall of the temple.

The mERkku veethi or the western veethi is a very narrow street but

crowded with so many shops of all kind. The famous Sri Ramar temple

is situated *near* the corner of the southern and western veethi.

Many business here are all "seeval" (beetle nut powder and

limestone, ingradients used in thAmboolam) and "sunnAmbu" companies

that this city is very famous for. Western veethi houses SriLakshmi

nArAyana perumal koil. It is very hard to find this temple as many

flower business shops are all around in a very crowded way. The

poovAsam or the fragrance of all the flowers will remind one of

"sEvai" to Sri ArA amuthan when one passes this western veethi. A

small Sri AnjanEyar sannithi is also here in this veethi. Little

further to the western veehti the famous shaivite temple Sri kumba

esswarar temple is there. Sri purandara dAsa delivered that this

Lord Shiva of kumbakonam is the first Srivaishnava guru and adiyAr

for our Sriman nArAyana (Sri ArA amuthan).

 

Sri kOmaLa vaLLi thAyAr samEtha Sri ArA amudhan thiruvadikaLE

saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan

(*****) North American donors plese note the change in SVSS mailing

address.

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mail to :

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Retd Pricipal,

(Committee member)

12, Besant Road,

KUMBAKONAM 612 001

 

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