Friday, July 24, 2020

Sri Velvishwarar Temple, Valasaravakkam










Moolavar: Sri Velvishwarar
Amman: Sri Tripurasundari Ambal
Place: Valasaravakkam, Chennai

There are so many old Shiva temples in and around Chennai and this is one of them which is almost a 1000 years old. Every shiva temple has its own 3 special things which are the Murthy or the Idol, the thalam or the place, thirtham or the temple pond. This temple too has these elements and the lord Velvishwarar and Agasthiswarar has been worshiped by many saints and mahans of those years.

It is said that you pray to these lords here in this temple you will be ridden of any mental related ailments and stress. Also those who perform yagam or homam called Velvi in Tamil, feel that there has been some mistake in the way they had performed the velvi or if they are not satisfied, they can come here and pray to Sri Velvishwarar and all those mistakes would be forgiven and you will get satisfied results of your velvi or yagam.

The thirtham or the pond is called Sukra thirtham. It is said that the Sukra Bhagwan one of Navagrahas worshipped this lord here to get his eye sight back. He had lost it as he tried to protect Maha Bali from Mahavishnu and in the bargain lost his eye sight. He created this thirtham here and as he Shukran worshipped the lord the lord is also called as Velishwarar.

Towards the north side of this temple you can find inscriptions on the stones dating to AD 1248 inscribed by the Chola king Rajendra the third. Also incriptions have been found in the grabhagriham or sanctum of this temple

From the puliyurkotam’s perur (now porur) a place known as Kozhumadi Vakkam hailed a person named Jayamkonda Chozh Bramharayan who has donated lot of wealth for the regular puja and maintenance of this temple.. the details of which are found in the inscriptions on the walls.

During the Chola period this place was called valliserupakkam which later years has changed to the current Valasaravakkam.

When Agasthiar came to this Valliserupakkam he installed a shivalingam in this Velvishwarar temple and that lord is called Agasthishwarar.

Interesting fact is that this temple is on the middle of Vadapalani Vengeeshwarar, Poonamallee Vaithishwarar temple and porur Ramanatheeswarar.

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