Mayilandavar Thirukovil
This temple is 2 buildings away from Ellai Amman Koil in Thiruvottiyur high road.
This temple has land area in which there is a corporation water tank with a stone compound wall all round and a board in the front stating that there is a dispute pending in the high court on the land belonging to the temple.
This land also houses the samadhi of Roma Rishi and an idol of the Rishi is installed in it.This rishi is supposed to have 10.5 crore romam (hair) in his body. He is said to be responsible for building of Thiruvottiyur temple, Tiruchendur temple and nava kailasam temples in Tirunelveli.
There is also a ghosala with around 10 cows and the milk is used for daily abhishekam of the main deity Mayilandavar (siva lingam) and the balance milk is sold and the sale proceeds used for maintaining the temple.
Damodar Swamy , a sivan adiyar resides there and takes care of the temple, temple land and the cows.
Annadhanam cooking is centrally done here and nearly 25 people are fed here daily. Infrastructure and initial supply of provisions, sufficient to last for a month, was supplied out of funds given by one of the donors. Also cooked food for 25 people is supplied to the neighbouring Apparswamy temple which is located closer to the beach. One item,either lemon rice,tamarind rice, curd rice, coconut rice or sambar rice is prepared and served along with pickles to the neighbouring slums.
Apparswamy Thirukovil
This temple is located in a fisherman village just opposite the Bay of Bengal. The sea is hardly 100 mts away and the temple is fully surrounded by houses with hardly one feet around.
This temple is supposed to be more than 2000 years old and has many interesting facts to its credit. This temple was worshipped by Appar swamy and there is a statute of Appar along with his sister Thilagavathiar who got him back to Saivism from Jainism.
The goddess is Thirupurasundari with the face of Vadivudai amman, the middle portion like Kodiedai amman and the limbs like Thiruvudai amman. The goddess is facing south in a standing position with one foot forward.
There is a Valamburi Vinayagar and also an Edamburi Vinayagar at the right entrance of the Shiva lingam sannidhi.
On the left is Lord Murugan in a sitting pose on a peacock with 2 snakes clinching to the peacock and Valli , Deivanai on the sides. This is a rare sitting pose of Lord Muruga found only in this temple.
There is also an idol of lord Krishna with flute in his hand touching his shoulder which is a rare one.
The temple stone structure has lot of inscriptions on it which has now been erased.
There is also a picture of lord Palani Andavar which has eyes looking at you from wherever you look at it.
Balaguru, a sivan adiyar,stays in the temple and takes care of it full time. Several political leaders and celebrities like Lawrence Raghavendra visit this temple often as they have immense faith in this god.
With the cooked food from Mylandavar kovil 25 people are fed daily under the Annadhanam scheme started in August 2015.
This temple is 2 buildings away from Ellai Amman Koil in Thiruvottiyur high road.
This temple has land area in which there is a corporation water tank with a stone compound wall all round and a board in the front stating that there is a dispute pending in the high court on the land belonging to the temple.
This land also houses the samadhi of Roma Rishi and an idol of the Rishi is installed in it.This rishi is supposed to have 10.5 crore romam (hair) in his body. He is said to be responsible for building of Thiruvottiyur temple, Tiruchendur temple and nava kailasam temples in Tirunelveli.
There is also a ghosala with around 10 cows and the milk is used for daily abhishekam of the main deity Mayilandavar (siva lingam) and the balance milk is sold and the sale proceeds used for maintaining the temple.
Damodar Swamy , a sivan adiyar resides there and takes care of the temple, temple land and the cows.
Annadhanam cooking is centrally done here and nearly 25 people are fed here daily. Infrastructure and initial supply of provisions, sufficient to last for a month, was supplied out of funds given by one of the donors. Also cooked food for 25 people is supplied to the neighbouring Apparswamy temple which is located closer to the beach. One item,either lemon rice,tamarind rice, curd rice, coconut rice or sambar rice is prepared and served along with pickles to the neighbouring slums.
Apparswamy Thirukovil
This temple is located in a fisherman village just opposite the Bay of Bengal. The sea is hardly 100 mts away and the temple is fully surrounded by houses with hardly one feet around.
This temple is supposed to be more than 2000 years old and has many interesting facts to its credit. This temple was worshipped by Appar swamy and there is a statute of Appar along with his sister Thilagavathiar who got him back to Saivism from Jainism.
The goddess is Thirupurasundari with the face of Vadivudai amman, the middle portion like Kodiedai amman and the limbs like Thiruvudai amman. The goddess is facing south in a standing position with one foot forward.
There is a Valamburi Vinayagar and also an Edamburi Vinayagar at the right entrance of the Shiva lingam sannidhi.
On the left is Lord Murugan in a sitting pose on a peacock with 2 snakes clinching to the peacock and Valli , Deivanai on the sides. This is a rare sitting pose of Lord Muruga found only in this temple.
There is also an idol of lord Krishna with flute in his hand touching his shoulder which is a rare one.
The temple stone structure has lot of inscriptions on it which has now been erased.
There is also a picture of lord Palani Andavar which has eyes looking at you from wherever you look at it.
Balaguru, a sivan adiyar,stays in the temple and takes care of it full time. Several political leaders and celebrities like Lawrence Raghavendra visit this temple often as they have immense faith in this god.
With the cooked food from Mylandavar kovil 25 people are fed daily under the Annadhanam scheme started in August 2015.
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