Visiting Thirukovalur was my long time plan and thought of Visiting SriMushnam along. Myself along with my friend started on Saturday and it was getting delayed, so we stayed at Pondycherry. The following day we arranged for a Cab and started our trip at 07:30 AM Sharp. I have heard about Singrikoil and wanted to visit the teample. Our Driver was not aware of the place.
We asked people on the way and found the temple. It was a Big Temple and is located in a small and beautiful village called Abshisekapakkam. ( Refer to Abhishekapakkam, people know this place than SingriKoil). One has to travel from Pondy to Cuddalore and on the way we need to take right towards Abhishekapakkam.
We asked people on the way and found the temple. It was a Big Temple and is located in a small and beautiful village called Abshisekapakkam. ( Refer to Abhishekapakkam, people know this place than SingriKoil). One has to travel from Pondy to Cuddalore and on the way we need to take right towards Abhishekapakkam.
The temple has a huge and majestic car, which invites you from a distance. As soon as you enter the Rajagopuram you will see a Vinayakar in a small sanctum. Then you enter the second prakaram , you will see the majestic dwjasthambam and then you can see the moolavar from Distance. Here Swami is Ugra Narasimhar with 16 hands fiercefully piercing the evil hiranyakashipu. It was an amazing sight to see him. We had very good Dharshan and went to Thayaars Sannathi. After this we started towards Cuddalore. We wanted to Visit Chidambaram and Srimushnam. But it was getting late, so decided to drop out Chidambaram from the plan.
After having breakfast in Cuddalore, we directly reached Sri Deivanayaka Perumal's Sannathi. Directly went to Perumals sannathi and He was standing in a majestic posture. This is my second trip to Thiruvaheendrapuram. I visited the temple during last october. Then we had the Darshan of Thaayar and Vedanda Desikar. Also went to Swami Manavalamamunigal Sannathi. The priest was asking us to start immediately to Sri Mushnam, else we might not be able to see the lord.
Immediately after this we started to Srimushnam and we reached Srimushnam exactly around 12:00 PM. Had a wonderful darshan of Varaha Swami. It was a very hot day. Then we visited Thaayars sannathi. Started back from Srimushnam. We had plans of visiting Kattu Mannarkudi, however the car got punctured and it was getting delayed, so we started off to Thirukovalur.
We reached Thirukovalur around 3 pm and were enjoying the beauty of the Rajagopuram and around 3.30 pm we heard that they have opened the temple, we got inside. The temple is not being maintained properly, which was a sad thing to notice. The crowd was ok and we had to wait in the queue for about 10 minutes. From the Main entrance we could see the gracious hands of Thiruvikraman. He was wearing a beautiful Kappu and my heart was eager to see his lotus feets and beautiful face. we recahed the garbagraham and had good darshan. Got the prasadams and then went to Thaayars sannathi, which was being opened that time. We got the blessings of thayaar and started towards Viliyanoor.
In Vliiyanoor we visited Vardharaja perumal temple, the Idols were beautiful and were real treat to our eyes. After this we started back to Pondicherry to return back to Chennai.
