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The Sarangapani Temple, Thirukudanthai, or Kumbakonam koyil is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu, located in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the Divya Desams, the 108 temples of Vishnu revered in Nalayira Divya Prabandham by the 12 poet saints, or Alvars. [1] This temple is along Kaveri and is one of the Pancharanga Kshetrams. [2]
Someswar Temple, kumbakonam. Someswar Temple is situated in the southern portion of Sri Sarangapani temple. This temple faces east with a 5-tier Gopuram at the entrance. It also has an entrance in the south. The architectural style and element of this temple resembles the Dravidian Architecture of the 13th century of the Chola period.
As found in Chakrapani Temple East, a temple of Draupati Amman is found in Sarangapani Temple east, having he as the presiding deity. [1] Two Kalis and Madurai Veeran are found in the left side of the shrine of the presiding deity. An inscription about the Kumbhabhishekham of this temple held on 23 August 2001, (7, Tamil month of Avani, Vishu ...
Gopuras of the temple in Kumbakonam The Sarangapani Temple on the banks of the Kaveri River at Kumbakonam is one of the Divya Desams and is also one of the five Pancharangam Temples. Its location is in the Tanjore district of Tamil Nadu , India , about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the Kumbakonam railway station.
However, based on the temple's architecture and motifs, scholars believe it to have been built in the 15th century under Nayaka rule. The temple was one of the three significant Vaishnava temples in Kumbakonam that received patronage during the Nayaka era, the others being the Ramaswamy Temple and the Sarangapani Temple. [8]
The 12-year cycle Mahamaham festival in Tamil Nadu is observed in the Hindu calendar month of Magha. On the day of Masi Maham, devotees in large numbers come to Kumbakonam and take a bath in Mahamaham tank, the tank which is considered sacred as nine sacred rivers of India such as Ganges, Kaveri, Yamuna, Sarasvati, Godavari, Narmada, Krishna, Sindhu and Sarayu mingle in Mahamaham tank.
The campus' centerpiece is a larger temple, called the Akshardham, which measures almost 90,000 square feet, reaches 191 feet into the sky and was made from 1.9 million cubic feet of marble and ...
Kumbakonam came into the limelight during the rule of the Medieval Cholas who ruled from the ninth century to the twelfth century. The town of Pazhaiyaarai, 8 km (5.0 mi) from Kumbakonam was the capital of the Chola Empire in the ninth century. [13] Following the decline of the Chola kingdom, Kumbakonam was conquered by the Pandyas in 1290. [14]