Vilamal Pathanchali Manoharar Temple
Vilamal Pathanchali Manoharar Temple[1] ( Tamil: விளமல் பதஞ்சலி மனோகரர் கோயில்)[2] is a Hindu temple located at Vilamal in Tiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu, India.[3] The temple is dedicated to Shiva, as the moolavar presiding deity, in his manifestation as Pathanchali Manoharar. His consort, Parvati, is known as Yazhinum Menmozhiyaal. [4]
Significance
It is one of the shrines of the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams - Shiva Sthalams glorified in the early medieval Tevaram poems by Tamil Saivite Nayanar Tirugnanasambandar.[4]
Literary mention
Tirugnanasambandar describes the feature of the deity as:[5]
தொண்டசை யுறவரு துயருறு காலனை மாள்வுற
அண்டல்செய் திருவரை வெருவுற வாரழ லாயினார்
கொண்டல்செய் தருதிரு மிடறின ரிடமெனி லளியினம்
விண்டிசை யுறுமலர் நறுமது விரிபொழில் விளமரே.
References
- ^ "Sri Pathanchali Manoharar temple". Dinamalar temples. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ ta: விளமல் பதஞ்சலி மனோகரர் கோயில்
- ^ "Sri Pathanchali Manoharar temple". temple.dinamalar.com. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ a b Pathanjali Manoharar Temple, Tiruvilamar
- ^ Tirugnanasambandar Tevaram, III:88:9
External links
- "Sri Pathanchali Manoharar temple". Dinamalar.
- "Pathanjali Manoharar Temple, Tiruvilamar". Shiva Temples of Tamil Nadu, Paadal Petra Sivasthalangal.
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