Moolavar: Sri Aabhathsagayeswarar
Amman: Sri Anandavalli Ambal
A beautiful temple which is associated with the Treyta yugam. Down south it is said that there are only 2 shiva temples where Sri Rama did abhishekam with his own hands. One is the very well known Sri Ramanadheeswarar of Rameshwaram and the other is this Pudhupattu Aabhathsagayeswarar Temple.
The current temple structure is believed to be built during the 630 to 638 AD during the first Narasimhaverma Pallava. The architecture belongs to the old Pallava period and it’s built such a way that you first worship Ambal Anandavalli before seeing the moolavar. Also the Kanchi Kailasanathar tenple, Kinnar Nethraleswarar and this temple is said to be in the same straight line.
Just 2 kilometres from this temple is a place called Villendhi Kuppam and during the Ramayan period there lived a Maharishi named Vibandakar. During the vanavasa time Sri Rama along with Lakshmana came to meet this Vibandaka Maharishi on their way to lanka in search of Seethadevi. It is said that the village Villendiya Kuppam came after Sri Rama visited this place and in years the same has got changed to Pillendhi Kuppam now. It’s the same village’s lake that was in later years protected by Sri Rama and has his temple as Erikatha Ramar in Madhuranthagam.
When Sri Rama met the Maharishi he requested that he wished to perform the Abhishekam of this Aabhathsagayeswarar with Ganga water. At that time Sage Agasthyar who carries Ganga water in his Kamandalam offered the water to Sri Rama to perform the Abhishekam as he had wished. This episode is being depicted in the sudhai of this temple. Also, this place is very closely associated with Ramayana’s story of Rama meeting Guhan a hunter or otherwise called Veduvan in tamil. Given that a lot of the Veduvar community lived in this place it is also called Vedanthangal and in later years silk weaving got its popularity here and the name changed to the recent Pudhupattu.
Contact: The temple contact person and numbers are Prasanna 8870350840, Shivaraman 9841061421
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