ancient shivan temple renovation at kalpoondi village

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respected sir/madam,AN ANCIENT SHIVAN TEMPLE ABOUT 500 YEARS OLD WITH GOOD HERITAGE VALUE CALLED SRI VISALAKSHI AMBAL SAMEDA SRI VISWANATHEESWARAR TEMPLE IN KALPOONDI VILLAGE ON THE BANKS OF KAMANDALA NAGA RIVER IN ARNI TALUK IN TIRUVANNAMALAI DISTRICT IN TAMILNADU IS BEING RENOVATED UNDER THE GUIDENCE OF ALAYA KAINKARAYA SATH SANGAM CHENNAI 600 083 WITH A COST OF 25 LAKHS. THIS TEMPLE IS WORSHIPPED AS EQUAL TO KASI TEMPLE IN THIS DISTRICT, ALSO THE SRI DHAKSHINAMURTHY IS IN YOGA SWARUPAM HENCE IT IS WORSHIPPED AS GURU PARIKARA STALAM. SUCH A ANCIENT TEMPLE IS IN VERY BAD CONDITION. WE REQUEST ALL THE DEVOTEES TO EXTEND YOUR MAXIMUM CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE RENOVATION WORK AND ALSO FORWARD THIS MAIL TO ALL YOUR KNOWN PEOPLE.WE HAVE HOSTED A WEBSITE FOR THE TEMPLE UNDER www.kalpoonditemple.org with all details about this temple and village.kindly contact gopalakrishnan alaya kainkarya sath sangam chennai 83 ph 9444272190 ph 044-2371 7311 e mail krg858 & kalpoonditemple. the proposed date of kumbabhishegam is sunday 30th august 2009 ARULMIGU SRI VISALAKSHMI AMBAL SAMEDARULMIGU SRI VISWANATHEESWARAN TEMPLE The Lord Siva is in different form and different divine name in several parts of Bharatha Desam Shiva is worshipped as the embodiment of the primary elements of Wind, Water, Fire, Earth and space in kalahasthi.Jambukeswaram, Arunachalam, Kanchipuram and chidambaram. with above form of elements Llord Shiva also appears as linga form in many places. Out of those places the kasi shethra called as Varanashi is important place of worship for Hindus. Every one of the Hindus will have liking and determination to go to Varanashi and worship Lord Viswanathan in thire life time. Kalpoondi village is situvated in the banks of river kamandalanathar river. a beautiful village with aceient heritage. In this village Arulmigu Attankarai Vazhi Amman temple, Sri Kothandaramar temple and Sri Visalakshi Ambal Sameda Sri Viswanatheeswaran temples are famlous in Arni Taluk. About 500 years ago people from this village have went to kasi and worshipped Lord Viswanathar. They brought a Lingam in the shape of 'Salagramam' to this village from Kasi. They installed the Lingam with Avudiyar and named as Sri Viswanatheeswarar and Ambal as Sri Vislashi Ambal. People from this village and surrounding villages started coming to this shrine and worshipped Lord Siva as Viswanatheeswaran and had satisfaction of worshipped lord viswanathar in Kasi. Even today it is belived in this district that visiting to kalpoondi Viswanatheeswaran temple is equal to visiting Kasi temple.Once in this village there was heavy rain and the river kamandalanatha river was running full of water and started touching the village. The theret of water made the people to pray to Lord Siva for there safty. Within shortwhile the flood started slowdown and people are saved by the Lord Viswanatheeswarar and from that this lord Siva is also called as "Vellanthangiswarar" The shrine of lord Dakshinamurthy in the south side of temple is in the form of Yoga Dakshinamurthy. Hence this temple is worshipped as Guru Parikarasthalam. The Saint Sri Sri Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi Mahaswamigal has visited this village and worshipped lord Sri Visalakshi ambal and Sri Viswanatheeswarar during his visits to Arni town. -- OM NAMASHIVAYA ALAYA KAINKARYA SATH SANGAMFLAT 4 SUBHIKSHAM NO 8 BANK OF INDIA COLONY ASHOK NAGAR CHENNAI 600 083 PHONE 2371 7311 2371 6947 9444272190web site www.kalpoonditemple.orgvisit link http://kalpoonditemple.blogspot.comwww.pradosham.com/kalpoondi.php