I am a Sales Professional, since 1985. My hobbies are cricket & listening to music. I love visiting temples especially in the Kumbakonam area. The calm and serene setting of the temples away from the hustle and bustle of the city really helps one to relax. The idea of starting this blog is to help people have maximum possible detail about any given temple. Often we miss some salient features about a temple or we don’t visit another important temple nearby because we didn’t know about it. There are some people who have been writing blogs on their temple visits. Those blogs have brought to our knowledge some excellent but relatively unknown temples. I wish to complement them for their efforts and my effort is just to supplement them. The detail given here is intended to help people have prior information and help plan their itinerary. I shall continually update the blog with details on new temples and also append/edit existing posts with new information as and when I get to know a new detail about a particular temple.
Thank you and looking forward to your support.
Hello Rajamala,
It is nice to see this blog. I wish more people come forward like this in different regions and bring out the glory of our culture and religion to make it easy for the seekers.All the best.
Regards,
Hello Raju
Thank you for your kind words of encouragement.
Regards
Narayanan
Hello Dear,
Very good collection of information about the temple, and I wish u that god should give u the strength to give such imformation about other temples its culture,its sansity and obout its way of woriship.
Thanks,
regards
Ravi
Dear Sir,
I am not sure whether you have added the Pillayar temple which we went in Thillai Tarpanapuri.
Nara Mugha Vinayagar – I think you have the photo of the same if required i will send the same to you.
I dont think many of the persons knows about the temple and the statue with human face.
I just want to remaind you.
Regards,
S.Anand
Anand
I have written about the Nara Mukha vinayakar at Thilatharpanapuri and also posted the picture of Nara Mukha vinayakar.
Regards
Narayanan
i have been going thro your write ups great work keep it up
if in your write ups you can add the map of the tem[ple itself it will be of great help
mukundhan
Dear Mr. Mukndhan
Thank you for your comments. I have given a link to the map showing the location of the temple in each of the posts. As per your suggestion I am also embedding the map in the respective posts.
Regards
Narayanan
Thanks for the information about the temple at Edayathumangalam. It happens to be the ancestral village on my father’s side. Hope to visit the village and the temple sometime when possible.
I read in this blog that Edayathumangalam is your ancestral village from your father’s side. Are you by any chance E.N.Narayanaswamy’s son?
Hi,
My father ,grandfathers have Edayathumangalam in thier initials and so Iam assuming my forefathers came from this village.Recently one of our astrologer mentioned about a Amman temple in the vicinity of Edayathumangalam which should be our “Kula Devam” and that we should try to visit the temple and do offerings and poojas.
Since you are also from the same village, do you have any idea about any amman temple in the near by area ?
Regards
Rajaram,virginia, USA
Well, that is interesting. That makes it two people with their roots in Edaiyathumangalam responding in my blog within a week of each other. Curious to know if we could be related. Yes there is the Poonga Vrikshi Amman Temple just half a kilometre from the village. The temple Priest is Rajappa and he can be contacted on +919443560082
Dear K.Narayanan,
Thanks for the quick response to my query.Iam now on month long vacation to india(chennai) and have a week stay left now.Thanks for giving me the amman temple details,I just contacted Rajappas no and could speka to his wife.Iam now trying to con firm with my astrologer if that is the same temple he is referring .
Yes we should try to see if our family root ancestory leads to any links !!
Currently where are you residing ? chennai ?
Regards
Rajaram
Yes. Contactable on 9840457700.
Hi Mr. Rajaram
I enquired with my father but he is not able to connect with any of the names of your family. My grandfather Major N. Narayanan was a doctor and served in the Indian Army during the war. Our family moved to Madras from Madurai in the 1940s and we have been living in Mandaveli since 1946.
Greetings!My ancestors are from Tamil nadu and my fore fathers had migrated away from India about 100 yrs ago. Lately I was informed that my kula deivam is Uthira Muthachi Amman and the temple is located in a village with hills/ elevated land around it. I have been trying to locate the village and the temple for the past couple of month but to no avail.If you have any information about the temple or advise on how to locate the temple, pls let me know. Totally appreciate it. Thanks
Dear Sir,
I appreciate you for the information.
One of my friends brother is suffering from the cancer (4 th stage). He inquired me regarding a temple in Tamilnadu,where the cancer is cured on worship. I request you to reply me to my mail id,if any such temple/ temples are available for the cancer cure.
with regards,
S.Venkataraman.
There are a few temples like Vaitheeeswaran Koil, SriVanchiyam, Thirukadaiyur and Begur Naganatheswara Temple that people visit to have their diseases cured. I had read about the personal experience of my fellow blogger. You may visit this link for detail on the temple at Konnerirajapuram. http://ushasuryamani.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/07/a-temple-in-konerirajapuram-lord-who-cures.htm
Nice work, keep it up.. hope to see more updates and many more useful information..
Very nice and interesting post.
Hi
we recently visited this beautiful village of Edayathumangalam which is very pleasing to the eyes with miles and miles of vazhai maram as far as you can see. The temple of Mangaleeswarar is very small and peaceful and the gurukkal did a good job of describing about it.
I have taken a few snaps of the Mangaleeswarar temple
Dear Ms Usha
If you are willing to share them, can you mail them to me at rajamala2001@yahoo.com I will post them on the site. Thank you in anticipation.
Regards
Narayanan
Usha,
We are in USA so will plan to go to this place may be in few years.Can you pls share temple pics of that place with us.My email is prajaram@yahoo.com
Thanks & regards
Rajaram
Dear Ms Usha
Thanks for the snaps of Mangaleeswarar temple
Regards
Rajaram
Dear Ms. Usha
Thank you for sharing those photographs. I have uploaded them in the blog.
Regards
Narayanan
Could some one please give details of Seven Siva Temples in and around Ranipet worshiped by Saptha Rishis and having darshan of all the seven temples on a Mahasirathri Day will give benefit of Kailash Darshan
K.Narayanan.
Thanks to you pointing to the Poonga Vrikshi Amman Temple .Last month we were able to go to the temple ,infact after many generations ,our family members were able to visit our kula devam.
Also where is the blog photo’s you had referred in earlier posts ?
Regards
Rajaram
Hi
Nice to know that my blog was of some help to you. I have not visited the village in the last year and hence I do not have any photos. The photos that I have posted are courtesy Ms. Usha, who also has her roots in Edayathumangalam.
Regards
Narayanan
Sir, I saw in your blog that thirupullaboothangudi is birth place of thirumangai alwar, but in other blogs and in book it is stated that Thirukurayalur near Thirunagari is the birth place of THirumangai alwar, which is correct…can you pls let me which is correct, as i want to visit all avathara sthalams of alwars
Hi
I had written that based on the notes and the details I had gathered at the temple. After you have brought to my notice I have also seen that most sites say that Thirukurayalur is the birth place of Thirumangai Alwar. However, I will once again ascertain during my next visit to the temple. Pending that, I am deleting the reference to his birth place in my blog.
Thank you for bringing it to my notice.
Dear Mr. Narayanan, I stumbled upon this site quite by chance. I am an Engineer from Bangalore, passionate about Indian art and culture in all its aspects, including Carnatic Music, Agama Shastra, ancient monuments etc. I am also a freelance writer for Deccan Herald Newspaper on Music and musicians, spirituality and philosophy, current affairs, humour etc. I love visiting hoary temples. Your site is is very informative and you are indeed doing a praiseworthy job in bringing such matters to the notice about people like myself, who are unable to extensively cover these places like you do. I have visited quite a few places around Thanjavur. My salutations to you for this good work, which I deem as another from of service to the Lord, in encouraging the devout to learn about and visit these sacred places.
Vanakkam Narayanan,
Thank you for your blog – very interesting and helpful. I am trying to identify and locate a number of temples that were administered by the Dharumapuram Adhinam in the early 18th century. Your blog helped me to identify the Sri Lakshmipureeswarar Temple in Thiruninriyur. Would you be willing to help me identify some others? I have an old list of about 12 names of the deities and places, but the spelling is different from modern versions. If so, please email me.
Nandri!
Will
Dear Narayanan
Happend to google for SriVanchiyam today while listening to an old recording of Brahmashri Anantharama Dikshitar’s upanyasam on Ramanayam where he mentions SriVanchiyam. The search led me to your blog/website. I feel as if if I have unearthed a treasure containing top quality information on a number of temples and surrounds that we have been wanting to visit for a long time. Hopefully, God willing we will be fortunate to visit these over a period of time in the near future. Keep up the great work.
regards
ramesh
Dear Friends!
Kindly permit me to correct the name of the Amman Temple at Edayathumangalam as Poonkaavukudichi Amman.
I too beling to Edayathumangalam.
And I just came across the blog.
Bhaskar.
Dear Bhaskar
Thank You. I shall make a check on that once more and make the necessary correction. Good to see some many from Edayathumangalam reading my blog.
Narayanan
Thank you.
I have shared your Home page on my blog here so that it will help more people come to know about your blog.
http://ancientindians.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/temples-a-blog-dedicated-to-temples/
God Bless you.
Satya
Thank you very much Ms. Anjana. Just had a cursory glance at your blog. Seems to have a wealth of information. It deserves more time. I will visit your blog again during the weekend.
Mr Narayanan,
Excellent job. I really enjoy reading your blog. I have a much better appreciation of the Temples built during the Chola period.
Excellent work. Last month I had been to temples around kumbakonam & thiruvarur. Your temple maps was a very useful guide. Thirukollikadu was good. Thanks for your time & hard work in cataloging the temples in detail. May God bless you.
Mouli
thank you so much. I was always longing to make a heritage trail visits to great temples of TN in the coming months. I serched and u have lot of information.
i am particularly interested in architecturally ornamented, ancient (pre british period) temples which provide me the real essence of the life of spiritualism in hindu/dravidian life
Thank You Bhaskar, you were right. I have made the corrections.