Mayiladuthurai temple visits

Mayiladuthurai temple visits

There are many temples of importance in and around Mayiladuthurai and I was there for 2 days (3.11.11 and 4.11.11) and will like to share my experience of visiting a few of these temples.  First of all, Mayiladuthurai railway station is  well connected from both Chennai and Tiruchirapalli side.  Town buses enter the railway station compound and are available since 05.50 AM and upto 10 pm to Mayiladuthurai central bus stand and from where buses are available to all the temples.   Within the town area itself, as almost everyone knew, the Mayuranathar temple, by which the town derives its name, is within 2km from the bus stand.  Now a new bus stand has come up 200metres from the old bus stand.    From the new bus stand, buses for Tiruvarur start and the old bus stand is the one from which bus services to Chennai via vaitheeswaran koil, Sirkazhi, Chidambaram and Villupuram and also towards Tiruchy and Pondichery are available.

       I took my time to have the “thula snanam” on the morning of 3^rd in the padithurai exclusively for the purpose of performing rituals.     During the months of Thula the sastrigal also is available on the padithurai itself.      I had darshan of Padithurai Kasi Viswanathar after the bath and left for Vaitheeswaran koil and from there to Omampuliyur near Kattumannargudi (should go from Chidambaram) and returned to Mayiladuthurai in the evening.    The next morning, the first temple to visit was Vanmutti perumal in Kozhikuthi, then back to Koranadu in Mayiladuthurai to visit punugeeswarar temple.    Further I went to Mayuranathar temple and from there to Parimala Renganathar temple and the new Anjaneyar temple nearby that.        All the temples can be reached by road, though the road leading to Vanmutti Perumal is a mud road for some distance between the main road and road leading to the temple.    On the afternoon of 4^th,  I visited the Thiruneelakkudi temple near Kumbakonam, to have a darshan of Thiru Manogyanathar and then went to Govindapuram and had darshan of Pandurangan in the beautiful new temple (Vital Rukmini Samsthan) recently built by Shri Haridas swamiji.    Back to Mayiladuthurai in the same evening and thus I could see a few temples around mayiladurai.  Details of the visits of the all the temples have been given in separate posts.