Vayalanallur - Murugan temple - Daily Pooja Scheme

On  18th May 2015  accompanied by Mr Adalarasan, Founder- Uzhavarapani Mandram and Mr Asokan, Caterer and a Shiva devotee we went by Auto to Vayalanallur, the birth of Vayalar Nayanar, one of  the 63 Nayanmars.

This temple is on the road connecting the Bangalore highway and Pattabiram and connected by MTC buses.

Lord Kandaswamy at Vayalanallur

In this place, there is a Murugan temple which has a Seven feet tall idol of Lord Yoga Balasubramania swamy ( also called Lord Kandaswamy) installed 500 years before but neglected and no poojas done till few years back. Being Kirthigai, special abhishekam and poojas were conducted and prasadams distributed.

Side view of the temple - on balance land left after unauthorised occupation

Front view of the temple - with plans to build a Gopuram

The present priest, Mr Naagahariharan, took over from his father who died in an accident. He takes care of  a Shiva temple and a Ganesha temple apart from working in TVS Indo- Japan ltd. He has requested the company Management to give him only night shifts so that he can attend to the temple works.

He presently  draws no remuneration from this temple and Mr Adalarasan requested me to add this temple to the list of temples adopted by PWRM Association for daily pooja and pay a monthly remuneration of  Rs 500 per month.

This was agreed and communicated to Mr Naagahariharan who gave his bank account details for online transfer of monthly remuneration.