Moolavar:Sri Boothagireeswarar
Amman:Sri Aaranavalli Ambal
A beautiful 9th century Pallava temple which apparently has inscriptions both of 8 to 9th century as well as of 11th to 12th century which is the Chozha period. As an existing Vishnu temple in this place was built in 9th century, it is believed that this also must be built during the same time frame. There are inscriptions from Vijayanagar period as well.
The legend behind the name Bhoothgireeswarar goes like this, once lord Brahma performed a yagam at Kasi kshetram and to attend the event lord shiva has sent all his Bhootha Ganam, after attending that yagam and before returning to Kailash the Bhootha Ganam have been belived to have worshiped this Shivalingam here and hence the name Bhoothagireeswarar.
This temple is interestingly situated in the North East corner of this place called Sirudavoor. And also given that the shivalingam is white in color and absorbes all colours he is called “Palavarnanathar” which means the lord who can manifest in different colors.
The Nandhi is very unique and completely turned towards south, apparently Yama dharmaraja came from south to take the soul of a sivanadiyar and lord Siva instructed the Nandhi to look towards the direction to stop Yama from coming and accordingly Nandhi turned his neck towards the south direction.
The Vimana is of Gajabirushta style.The sanctum sanctorum consists of sanctum antarala, arthamandapam and open mukha mandapam. Moolavar is of swayambu, white in colour. Ambal, Shivalingam, Murugan, Chandikeswarar and Nandhi all seemed to be from 9th century.
In koshtam Vinayagar, Dakshinamurthy, Mahavishnu, Brahma and Lingothbavar are seen as in most of the shiva temples, but these koshta vigraham belongs to recent years.
Kumbhabhishekam has been just performed in 2019.
Contact:
Kumar Kurukal and his young son Akash takes care of the temple and can be reached at 7305648923
Location:
Sri Boothagireeswarar Temple, Sirudavoor, Chengalpattu
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