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VAYALUR- SRI SUBRAMANIA SWAMI TEMPLE

SRI. S.V.VARADHARAJAN

 Now, let us see te puranic background of this temple.The siva Linga in this temple is 'swayambu' bearing the name 'Vidangar'. In olden days, Chola kingdom had uraiyur as its

capital and was very famous.The king had the duty of redressing the grivances his people.The king once came to the place which is currently called Vayalur for hunting animalas. While hunting, he became thirsty and finding no water anywhere, he came across a sugar cane plant sprouting into three branches. He thought 

of appeasing his thirst and so began cutting the sugarcane branch and surprisingly found blood oozing out from inside that plant. He got terrified and ordered his attendants to examine the bottom portion of that plant. To the great surprise of all of them, they found a 'siva linga' underneath that plant. The king prayed to the Supreme God saying "Oh Lord,you have shown me the blood only to show us your prescence in ths place". He immediatly decided to construct a temple for the God at that place but the king died shortly after that and so could not fulfil his desire. That place was maitaining its serenity from that time onwards and it is believed 'Adhinathar' has been taking care of that region since since then. In this temple, 'Adhinathar has been sanctified in the form of 'Agni'(fire).The Lord being the supreme power is woorshipped as Agneeswara,Mahadeva(Supreme among Devas) and also as Marappilinathar (who never forgets his devotees, and protects them)

To be continued