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 KALLAZHAGAR

                

                          KALLAZHAGAR-2  
                          Sri S.V.Varadarajan




        Even now, it is believed that the Lord is blessing the devotees and save them from hardships. The river is just about 2 miles from the mountain and is called 'silambaru' and 'Noopura Gangai'. How this river came into existence here is explained by an interesting event in the Puranas.Once, the Pandiyan king Malayadhwaja had conquered all the Kingdoms South of 'Meru' mountain and got his name engraved on the huge mountain. He made Agasthiya as his minister and was ruling over his vast kingdom for 1000 years from Madhurai. With the assistance of Agathiya, the king got a pushpaka Vimana and used to travel on this Vimana daily to the Ganges river, take his holy bath in it and worship Maha Vishnu at Gaya and then return to Madurai. One day, when he was flying in his Vimana over the Vrishabadri mountain, the shadow of the vimana fell on the mountain. The elderly sages who were there pulled down the vimana by tracing the shadow of the vimana with their supernatural powers. At that time, Lord's ethereal voice from from the Heaven told the king "The water from the silambaru which flows from my feet is much more sacred and holier than even the Ganges water and when that is so, why not you also have dip in this holy river and wash off your sins and worship me here and get the benifit. Taking this as the order from the Almighty, the King began worshipping God here itself and was rendering service.


      But as per historic facts, it is observed that the Azhagar koil was here even  when the  pandya rule began and the town called 'Azhaga puri' was also there as a famous place.Inside the Fort of this town, Azhagar temple was situated.


To be continued
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