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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

SUCHINDRAM TEMPLE-9

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      THAANUMAALAYAN-SUCHINDRAM
          

SUCHINDRAM TEMPLE-9

    SRI.S.V.VARADARAJAN

   Now, let us see the structure of the temple and the deities sanctified there and the artistic items, and the festivals.The Gopuram with seven levels towering to a height of 134 feet can be seen even from a distance. It has many artefact works,paintings and carvings on it. On the front side we can see Lord Siva, Parasakthi and Mahavishnu. We cross the Nartakasala which is suported by majestic stone pillars and reach the  main entrance which has a gigantic door with beautiful hand work. On top of the door , the three Goddesses Kalaimagal, Thirumagal and Malaimagal can be seen sitting  in penance pose.


    Next, we come to 'oonchal mandapam' with a stone bench in the middle and on the pillars around that, we see the figures of Manmatha,Rathi, Karnan,Arjunan etc. beautifully carved with life - like features. Next we reach the Vasanta Mandapam. On the eastern side of it, we can see Dakshinamoorthy in a penance pose as a great preceptor. During the Vasantha Utsava festival, this mandapam will be decorated nicely and we can see water columns surrounding this Mandapam. Suchindhra perumaal along with Uma Devi will be majestically seated on the throne and placed on the stage here. A special feature in this temple is that Navagrahas are carved on the inner surface of the stone ceiling of the Mandapam and on the floor, we see Parvathi Devi and so Vinayaka sprinkled the water from the vessel in his hand and the Navagrahas were lifted upwards and got stuck into the upper ceiling. Thus, vinayaga saved his mother from the bad effects of Saneeswara and affectionately got her seated on his lap. So goes the Puranic story.


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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

SUCHINDRAM TEMPLE-8

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THAANUMAALAYAN 
            SRI.S.V.VARADARAJAN

       The next story relates to an incident in Kanyakumari temple near Suchindram temple. In olden days a demon Banasura was creating trouble for all the three worlds.The celestial Devas prayed to Parasakthi for succour. There was  a curse on Banasura by which Lord Brahma had ordained that the demon was to meet his end in the hands of a spinster. Therefore Goddess Devi had taken the form of an unmarried woman and was seated in Kanyakumari. Lord Thanumalaya, having his abode in Suchindram nearby, wanted to marry Goddess Devi and so the marriage was fixed for a day in the night. Sage Narada coming to know of this engagement, began to think that if this marriage took place, Banasura could not be killed and so wanted to stop this marriage. He cleverly took the form of a cock on the road from Suchindram to Kanyakumari and began crowing as if it was dawn time. Lord Thanumalaya who was passing that way for attending his marriage with Devi thought that night time was already over and that it was dawn and he was late for the marriage which cannot take place after mid midnight. So, he retraced his steps and went back to Suchindram without marrying the Devi. The Goddess therefore continued to be seated there as a spinster and even now we worship her there in this form. Thereafter, banasura was annihilated  by the Goddess and She saved the Devas. Even today we can see on the sea beach in Kanyakumari the place where the cock did the crowing.


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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

SUCHINDRAM TEMPLE-7

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           THAANUMAALAYAN- SUCHINDRAM

SUCHINDRAM TEMPLE-7

    SRI.S.V.VARADHARAJAN




  There is also another puranic story in Puranas about this area. This is the place where Indra, the celestial head washed off his sins. Once Indra was very much attracted and fell in love with Agalya, wife of the great sage Goutama.He waited for an opportunity to get near her. One day in themid night time, he reached the Sage's Asram and began crowing like a cock there. Thinking tht it was dawn, the Sage went out to the river for taking bath. Indra, taking advantage of this, got into the form of the Sage and entered the Asramam.Goutama however on reaching the riverfound that was not really dawn, got angryand immediatly returned to his Asramam and found Indra and Agalya together. His eyes turned turned red with anger. He cursed Agalya to get converted into a stone. He threw a severe curse on Indra by which Indra's body was having eyes everywhere, which made him an ugly figure. Feeling highly ashamed of his action,Indra did penance for a long period and reached Gnanaranya and took a dip in the tank there and worshipped the Deity Thanumalaya there. By this he got rid of his curse.Being extremly happy with this, Indra created a temple for the three prime Deities in Gnanaranyam.


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  The Sucindram Temple: A Monograph

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

SUCHINDRAM TEMPLE-6

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THAANUMAALAYAN                             

SUCHINDRAM TEMPLE-6

    SRI.S.V.VARADARAJAN




   Anusuya advised them to worship Devi Parasakthi and accordingly they performed severe penance for forty one days and went back to Anusuya. The sage's wife then sprinkled the holy water sanctified by her husband's feet on the small kids. The brahmins at once got their original divine forms as Divine Trinity. Saint Narada, Devas, Rishis, and Sages bowed and worshipped the three Lords who appeared with their Goddess wives and felt very happy.When the celestial beings disappeared, three idols of Linga sprang up under the Kondrai tree which was there at that time. Even now, we can see these three Lingas under the Kondrai tree in the Eastern prahara in the Kondraiyadi Nathar temple.


To be continued.