ancient shakthi (ambal) temple renovation

[Guest guest]

respected ambal devotees

 

an ancient ambal (shakthi) temple about 500 years old with good heritage

value called sri visalakshi ambal sameda sri viswanathaneeswarar on the

bank of kamandalanatha river in arni town east 5 km a beautiful village

kalpoondi is now under very bad condition and getting ready for

renovation with the help of devotees. alaya kainkarya sath sangam

chennai 83 has under taken the renovation work with a cost of rs.20

lakhs. we request all the devotees to participate in the noble ancient

temple renovation and get the abonded blessings of ambal sri visalakshi.

we have hosted a web site on this under www.kalpoonditemple.org

<http://www.kalpoonditemple.org> contact e mail krg858

<krg858

 

ARULMIGU SRI VISALAKSHMI AMBAL SAMED

ARULMIGU 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.