Guest guest Posted August 8, 2009 Report Share Posted August 8, 2009 Dear Sankar NO ATTACHMENTS R ALLOWED IN ANY GROUP SO MAX U CAN UPLOAD A FILE IN THE FILE SECTION or make it part of ur mail itself all groups don't encourage attachments as they can bring in viruses and affect thegroup, its archives, its members a great deal Prashant ________________________________ sankaranarayanan k.s <shankypriyan Saturday, August 8, 2009 5:54:42 PM Re: Navagraha Kshetras of Tamilnadu you have missed the attachment detailsbelow Start from Chidambaram Mangal Vaitheswaran Temple 25 KM Budha Thiruvenkadu 10 Km from Vaitheswaran Temple towards Nagapatnam Ketu Keezh Perumballam Another 6 Kms Sun Sorriyanar Koil 30 Kms from Vaitheeswaran koil - on the way to Kumabakonam Sukra Kanjanur 3 km from sooryanar koil Reach Kumabakonam - another 12 kms Raghu Tirunageswaram 6 kms from Kumbakonam Moon Thingalur 30 Kms from Kumbakonam on the way to Thiruvaiyaru Saturn Thirunallaru 45 kms from kumbakonam on the way to Karaikal Guru Alangudi 20 kms from Kumbakonam - Dakshinamoorthy Guru Thittai 40 Kms from Kumbakonam on the way to Tanjore.Brahaspathi Navagraha Khestras From Chennai you can first reach Chidambaram ( Famous Natraj temple) and start covering the places. If you start from Trichy, then start from Tanjore on the reverse order. Vaitheswaran Temple: Glorified by the 6th Century Thevaram, the Tamil name of the temple is Pulirukkuveluer. Ie Pul + Irukku + Vel + ur. Ur is village. Pul is bird, here Jadayu, Irukku is Rig Veda, Vel is lord Muruga. This temple is worshipped by Jadayu, Rig Veda and Lord Muruga. Legend is when the world was suffering with health problem, Shiva and Parvathy came as a doctor couples. Hence the name Vaidhyanatha to the lord and the town is now called in lord’s name. The theertha is called Sidhamirtha theertha and bathing in the tank and worshipping god and goddess cures one from all health problems. Lord Mangal had his curse cured here and has a separate shrine in the outer prahara. Sthala vriksha is neem. Thiruvenkadu: Thiru is Sri, Ven is white and kadu is forest. Swetharanyam in Sanskrit. Glorified in Thevaram and Valmiki Ramayana. When Ram, Lakshman and Seetha were bathing in Godavari and coming out in aranya kanda, valmiki says it looked like Lord Shiva and Parvathi walking with Nandhi leading the way in Swetharanya Kshetra. Here there are three theerthas and bathing in all three theerthas is important. There is a Vadaranya and shradh can be performed like the brahmakapala. Lord is in 3 forms here Shiva, Nataraja and Agoraveerabhadra. Hence 3 tanks and 3 sthala vriksha. Budha got his nabumsak curse cured and has a separate shrine in the outer prahara. Kil perumballam. This shiva temple has a separate Ketu shrine and ketu had his curse cured here. This temple is not glorified in thevara. Infact the Thirukketheswaram in Srilanka is glorified in thevaram as the temple worshipped by Ketu. If possible Thirukketheswaram should be worshipped .The Kilperumpallam temple though not glorified in thevaram is definitely of before 6th century origin. Sun: Sooriyanar Koil: Sooriyan is Sun in Tamil. This is actually 2 temples. The Shiva temple is called Thirumanagalakudi glorified in thevaram ( it is just opposite to the Sun temple) and the Navagraha temple opposite to the Shiva temple. Kalava Maharishi had Kushtarog and did a severe penance to Navagrahas. Navagrahas appeared before him and cured his Kushtarog. Since Navagraha’s duty is to give as per once karma and they donot have any right to cure anybody, they were cursed to have kushtarog. The Navagrahas did severe penance to Pranavaradeswara at Thirumanagalkudi and lord cured their kushtarog. They were told to bless the people who worship him. The Navagrahas have a separate temple with Sun having the central shrine with his consorts, Bruhaspathi facing him and all the other seven surrounding him. Sthala vriksha is Urga ( Erukku) and on Sundays eating curd rice in Urga leaf is supposed to cure disease. Kanjanur: Here there is no separate Sukra shrine. Lord Vishnu during Vamanavatar, pierced the eyes of Sukra when he blocked Mahabali from giving the land to lord Vishnu. Vishnu worshipped lord Shiva ( Agneswara) for this Sukra dosha and hence this is a Sukra sthala. Glorified in Thevaram. Raghu: Thirunageswaram as the name suggest worshipped by the serpent Raghu. Glorified in Thevaram lord Naganatha swamy is the presiding deity. There two shrines for Parvathy. Pirainudal kanni on whom the moons rays fall on Karthik Poornima and Girigujambiga who is having Lakshmi and Saraswathi on her both sides. Raghu with his two consorts has a separate shrine in the outer prahara. Special poojas performed daily on Rahukalams with milk. The milk turns blue during and after abishekam. Saturn: Thirunallaru glorified in Thevaram. Thiru + Nal + Aru. Thiru is Sri, Nal is Nala and aru here is not river. It is cured. ( Arudal) Place where Nala was cured. When Nala had bath in the theertha ( called Nala theertha now) and entered the temple Saturn could not follow him and stayed out and thus Nala was cured by lord Sani. Lord Darbaranyeswara ( Sthala vriksha is Darba grass) and goddess Bogamartha Poon Mulaiyal . Saturn has a shrine at the entrance. Taking an oil bath in Nala theertha and worshipping Lord Dharbaranyeswara and Saturn is advised for Sani dosha. On Saturdays there will be long queue and will take minimum 6 to 7 hours for darshan. Moon: Thingalur, Thingal is moon in Tamil. The Thevaram of this temple is missing but there is a thevaram sung in this temple to cure a devotee’s snake bite by saint Appar is available. As the name indicates Chandra worshipped Lord and has a separate shrine. Guru: Lord Guru has two temples both glorified by Thevaram. In Alangudi Apatsahyeswara temple, the Dakshinamoorthy is worshipped as Guru and in Thittai Vasishteswara temple Brahaspathi worshipped Shiva and has a separate shirine near lord himself. When visiting these temples also Visit: Chidambaram Natraja Temple Thiruvidaimarudhur Mahalingaswamy ( madyarjuna) Pattesswaram Durga Thirumananjeri ( Marriage Kshetra) Thirukkarukavur ( Garbarakshambiga for safe child birth) Meda Dakshinamoorthy in Mayuram Big temple in Tanjore and Gangai Konda Cholapuram If possible to Srirangam and Thiruvanaikovil in Trichy. Please Note: The Lord is present in these Shrines for us and giving an easy remedy for lesser mortals like us. Since we could not do severe penance, he is present in these temples and by just having a darshan, we will be relieved. Our Rishis pradishta power, The Tamil saint’s thevara song power and lord’s grace has helped to sustain this. You will really feel the lord in all these kshetras and the radiance . Many are visiting as a one day picnic and focus on grahas only without even worshipping lord shiva. Since the grahas are in the outer prahara and when the temple is closed in the noon as per Agama sastras, people just visit the outer prahara and leave for next. Please note that it is important to worship Shiva and Paravathy in the temple first. Bathe in the Tanks. Have Upavas and if not possible have milk and fruits and take Prasad for eating. Take 3 days off and visit strictly as per sastras. --- On Sat, 8/8/09, sankaranarayanan k.s <shankypriyan@ > wrote: sankaranarayanan k.s <shankypriyan@ > Navagraha Kshetras of Tamilnadu Saturday, August 8, 2009, 1:01 PM Dear All I am sending you a small article on the Navagraha Khsetras of Tamilnadu. Our Great Sages experainced lord all over Bharatavarsha and requested him to be present there. Their penance, Their Yantra and Prana pradishta are felt even today. Hence these kshetras had continuous pujas for centuries. Also are glorified by the Tamil saints in Thevaram. ( Thevaram is on Lord Siva and Divyaprabandam is on Vishnu.) You need to visit atleast once in your life time. Extreme case you can outsource the Pujas. The dewasthanams of these temples are well maintained and sincerely perform pujas and you can approach them directly for the conduct of any Pujas. Please mail me if you want to know anything further on these temple. Regards Sankar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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