The journey wasn’t expected to last such a long one. On that murky Sunday, we decided to have darshan at Marundheeswarar Temple located at the East Coast of Bay of Bengal, Thiruvanmiyur. We planned to start as early as possible to avoid traffic and more importantly I love to start early as it was so calm and cool with less traffic on the road and have chance to look around on the way.
Even
though the distance is more than 20 kilometers to the temple, we were diverted
several times to end up to cover almost all the roads in the Chennai city. The Metro Rail construction work was going on
almost all over the city. There wasn’t
much traffic though we had a long journey.
At
10 o’clock we finally reached the famous Marundheeswarar Temple. The temple is located just on beginning of
the East Coast Road (ECR). There were
two entrances one just at the front of ECR and the other is at the back side
where it is easier to park your vehicles.
There was big a Mandabam
(hall) at the back entrance (West Tank Street) before you enter at the main shrine.
The temple is more than thousand years
old, further expanded by Chola in their period.
The temple is spread over one acre.
It is dedicated to the Lord Shiva.
The temple is said to be visited and worshipped by the famous poet
Valmiki who wrote the historical epic The Ramayana. The name of the temple itself indicates that
the temple is famous for curing diseases of people. The history says that the Lord
Marundheeswarar has taught Sage Agasthiyar the Medical Treatements who was one
of the famous sage and who is said to teach many methods of medicine to treat
various diseases. He is also famous to
have made ‘Naadi Jyothidam’. The ‘Naadi
Jyothidam’ is about the predictions of each and every human was born and to be
born. It contains all the details of
previous birth, the past, the present and the future happenings in everyone’s
life.
Along
with the main shrine of Lord Marudheeswarar, Goddess Parvathi, wife of Lord
Shiva also can be seen in the temple.
There are 108 lingams and the dance form of Lord Shiva, Nataraj are also
can be worshipped here. It is one of the
oldest temple and must visit once at least.
Temple Timings : Morning 6.00 am to
12.30 pm & Evening 4.00 pm to 8.30 pm daily
Buses: All the buses to Thiruvanmiyur
and ECR
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