Temple Details

Thyagaraja Temple   Kanchipuram


About Thyagaraja Temple

"Thyagaragar Temple is Saiva temple devoted to the divinity Shiva, situated in the town of Thiruvarur in Tamil Nadu, India. Shiva is worshiped as Moolanathar, and is spoken to by the lingam. Every day poojas are offered to his deity alluded to as Maragatha lingam. His partner Parvathi is portrayed as Kondi. The managing divinity is venerated in the seventh century Tamil Saiva authoritative work, the Tevaram, composed by Tamil holy person writers referred to as the nayanars and delegated Paadal Petra Sthalam. 

The temple complex spreads 30 sections of land, and is one of the biggest in India. It houses four entryway towers known as gopurams. The tallest is the eastern pinnacle, with four stories and a stature of 30 meters (98 ft). The temple has various holy places, with those of Thyagaragar (Veethi Vidangar) and Neelothbalambal being the most noticeable."

The temple goes back to the season of the Medieval Cholas.An engraving dated in the twentieth regnal year of Rajendra I(1012– 1044) start with presentation "Tirumanni valara" is found on the north and west dividers of the Thyagaraja shrine.It gives a rundown of blessings including various gems and lights to the god veedhividankar(Thygarajar).It records that the temple was worked in stone in the regnal years of the lord by Anukkiyar Paravai Nangaiyar.Besides a similar woman generously invested gold for plating and overlaying parts of the vimana,the entrance and the four sides of the shrine.Copper was additionally given for plating the entryways, corbels of the mainstays of the mandapa before the shrine.This engraving carefully records the heaviness of the enriched gold and copper,besides posting the different trimmings skilled to the temple with portrayal each of them. The temple complex appears to have gone about as the social model for the enormous Brahadeeswarar temple at Thanjavur of Rajaraja Chola I, wherein he cherished a vitankar which imparted to the Atavallan of Chidambaram the status of state religion. The last Chola ruler to assume an essential part in the undertakings of the temple was Kulothunga Chola III in the early piece of the thirteenth century A.D. It pulled in saivas of all schools and was imperative focus of Golaki matha in the thirteenth and fourteenth century. It was likewise a critical Jaina home, which was assaulted by saivas, as is clear from Periya Puranam, record of life of tantiyadigal.

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