Moolavar: Sri Nallinekeswarar
Amman:Sri Deivanayak
Place: Ezhichur, Oragadam
Sri Nallinekeswarar Temple is situated at Ezhichur village– 603 204, located about 50 Kms South West of Chennai, on the road connecting between Tambaram and Kanchipuram. This temple’s last Consecration (Kumbhabhishekam in Tamil) undergone during 1948 after which it got dilapidated. Many trees, plants and bushes were covering the temple for so many years. An auto driver (Muslim) identified this temple inside the bushes during his trip to Ezhichur and informed the local villagers.
The native villagers have taken their initiative to completely rebuild the temple with stone structure and with much difficulty starting from the year 2000 to 2012 the temple was built up with Stone Structure and Consecration (Kumbhabhishekam) was performed on 29th June 2012.
Importance of this Temple:
Around 1100 years old temple with Historical records.
Shiva statue is "Suyambu" (which, according to tradition, was not sculpted by man but formed spontaneously) here.
The name of the god is Nallinekeswarar and the Nandhi are unique in nature, archaeological department done a research and confirmed this information.
Traditional Belief in this temple is Shiva will solve all your problems smoothly, especially husband and wife’s problem, family relationships, problems between brothers and sisters, problems between father and mother and all other family members as the name has “Nallinekam – God of harmony”. Apart from this, the business relationship with the customers and the development of the business is well progressing, if you are visiting Nine Pradhosams or Sixteen Pradhosams Continuously.
Nandhi wearing beautiful ornaments and cloths, all are carved on it. Nandhi folded one of his forelegs backward and other one is in stretched position. Nandhi’s back legs position, one is folded while another leg goes beneath its stomach and this leg is seen jutting out on the other side. Similarly the tail goes underneath the belly and stretches out on its left side.
A large snake is visiting this temple daily 2 times and doing Pradakshina to the Shiva Idol. (Priest confirms this detail, every day they are seeing the snake visiting the temple).
54th Adhishtaanam (Samadhi) of ‘Sri Vyaasaachala Mahadeva Saraswathi Swamigal’ of Kanchi Mutt is also found in the temple at south west of the sanctum.
A Copper plate inscription about the donation of temple and village to the 54th Peedathipathi “Sri Vyaasaaachala Mahadeva Saraswathi Swamigal” of Kanchi Mutt is available at Kanchi Mutt, Kancheepuram.
Temple Timings:
6.00 a.m to 12.30 p.m
4.00 p.m to 8.30 p.m
Location:
Sri Nalinakkeswarar Temple, Oragadam
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