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Thiru Arimeya Vinnagaram is one of the 108 Divya
Desams of Lord Vishnu located in Thirunangur, Nagapattinam District, Tamil Nadu.
Presiding deity – Thiru Kudamadukoothan with his
consort Goddess Sri Amruthaghatavalli , Utsavar – Chathurbuja Gopalan
Vimanam – Uchasrunga Vimanam
Pushkarani – Amrutha Pushkarani, Kodi Theertham
Mangalasasanam – Thirumangai Alwar - Alwar praising Lord’s various incarnations
as Matsya/Kurma/Mohini for obtaining
nectar of Immortality and wipe out the
existence of demons, Trivikrama Avthar
of Lord to crush the pride of the demon
King Mahabali and incarnation of Lord as Krishna to annihilate the demon King
Kamsa.
Festival – Thai Utsavam, Vaikundha Ekadashi,
Mangalasasana Utsavam, Garuda Sevai, Vaikasi Visagam,
The legend has that Sage Uthanga/Vipra Rishi
learned Vedas at early stages of his childhood from Sage Vaidhyar. Sage Uthanga wanted to offer something
precious as Guru Dakshina after completing his learning process. Guru Patni expressed her desire to have the
earrings of wife of the King who was ruled that city. Sage Uthanga approached the Queen with his
request to have her earrings to offer Guru Dakshina. The Queen offered him the earrings without any
hesitation; she was already heard about Sage Uthanga’s truthfulness. Uthanga happily returned to the hermitage of
Guru, on his way back he was too tired of hunger and thirst, so he decided to
rest for a while. Immediately there
appeared an attractive cowherd with a mud pot on his head and a bamboo stick on
his hand dancing with his own tunes surrounded by his cows. Uthanga solemnly requested cowherd to give
him something to drink from his pot. The
cowherd mischievously answered that the pot contains cow dung and its urine
that was accepted by his guru Vaidhyar once. Uthanga
without any further thought immediately put down his belongings and stanchly accepted
the same. At this point of time, there
appeared a guy from nowhere, he cleverly seized his belongings and ran
off. Uthanga chased the fellow, but the
guy whizzed into a manhole. Uthanga
desperately requested cowherd to help him to get back his belongings. At once there arrived a man on his horse
back, Cowherd suggested Uthanga to request him for more help and followed
Uthanga. Uthanga anxiously approached
the man on horseback and he explained the whole pathetic state of affairs. He was deeply moved at Uthanga and promised
to help him to get back his belongings.
He moved in front of the manhole and forced the horse to sneeze
boisterously, as a result it spews out blazes from its nose. The guy who was in the manhole surged out
with the unbearable heat. He returned
the belongings of Uthanga and begged for forgiveness. Uthanga expressed his gratitude to Cowherd
and the man on horseback, he happily returned to the hermitage of his
Guru.
Sage Uthanga explained everything happened to
Sage Vaidhyar. After listening to
Uthanga, Sage replied that the Cowherd was none other than Lord Vishnu, the
horse was Lord Agni and the man on horseback was Lord Indra, in order to test
Uthanga’s devotion towards his Guru. The
cow dung and urine were the divine nectar helped Uthanga to remain safe and
sound. Sage Uthanga’s yearning to
envision Lord Vishnu in the form of cowherd grew more and more after listening
to his Guru Sage Vaidhyar. The most
compassionate Lord gave dharshan as Sri Kudamadukuthan to Sage Uthanga on this
sacred land. Thus, this sacred land has
got its name Arimeya Vinnagaram from ‘Hari Meviya Vinnagaram’.
Another legend has that Dakshaprajapati
conducted a Yagna without inviting his daughter Sati Devi and Lord Shiva. He invited all the sages and deities with due
honor and respect. Dakshaprajapati
disliked the presence of Lord Shiva and Sati in the Yagna Arena due to the
severe animosity towards the Lord, he cleverly created a huge turmoil in the
relationship between Sati Devi and Lord Shiva.
Lord Shiva - Lord of Lords who was knower of all warns Sati Devi about
the chaotic end of Yagna, discourages Sati from her visit to Yagna Arena.
Finally, Sati left mount Kailash with Nandikeshwara after a sequence of heated
arguments with Lord Shiva. She was
humiliated in the Yagna arena and she had to give up her life in the
sacrificial fire. Consequently, Lord
Shiva in a mounted anger performed Rudra Tandavam, so aggressive was the cosmic
dance that the hair fallen from Lord were turned out Rudras. Instantaneously 11 Rudras were furiously
started to perform Rudra Tandavam.
Sensing the possibility of destruction to the Universe, Lord Vishnu
appeared before Lord Rudra. Lord Rudra was
pleased at the presence of Lord Vishnu, prayed to remain in this sacred land in 11 forms. Therefore, Thirunangur turned out 11 Divya
Desams of Lord Vishnu.
In this temple Lord Vishnu assumed the form of
Sri Kudamadukuthan to provide dharshan to Sage Uthanga/Vipra Rishi and wipe out
all evil forces on this sacred land.
This temple remains open from 8.00AM to 12.00PM
in the morning and 4.00PM to 7.00PM in the evenings.
Contact Perosn – Sri Rajagopal Bhattar Swamin
(Satish) 275689 / 94439858843
Nangoor Main Road,
Shirkazhi Taluk, Nagapattinam District.
Jai Sriman Narayana !!
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