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Sthalam

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Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple&nbsp;or&nbsp;Sri Mayakoothar Permual Temple&nbsp;is one of the&nbsp;Nava Tirupathi, nine&nbsp;Hindu&nbsp;temples dedicated to&nbsp;Vishnu&nbsp;located&nbsp;Perungulam&nbsp;along&nbsp;Tiruchendur-Tirunelveli&nbsp;route,&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India in the southern bank of&nbsp;Thamiraparani&nbsp;river.

It is located 5&nbsp;km from Alwar Thirunagari.

All these 9 temples are classified as&nbsp;Divya Desams, the 108 temples of Vishnu revered by the 12 poet saints, or&nbsp;Alwars.The temple is referred to as&nbsp;Shani sthalam, a location for the planet deity,&nbsp;Shani&nbsp;(saturn).

Constructed in the&nbsp;Dravidian style of architecture, the temple is glorified in the&nbsp;Divya Prabandha, the early medieval&nbsp;Tamil&nbsp;canon of the&nbsp;Azhwar&nbsp;saints from the 6th&ndash;9th centuries CE. It is one of the 108&nbsp;Divyadesam&nbsp;dedicated to Vishnu, who is worshipped as Mayakoothar and his consort&nbsp;Lakshmi&nbsp;as Kulandhaivalli Thayar.

A granite wall surrounds the temple, enclosing all its shrines. The&nbsp;rajagopuram, the temple&#39;s gateway tower, is three-tiered in structure. The temple follows&nbsp;Thenkalai&nbsp;tradition of worship. Six daily rituals and three yearly festivals are held at the temple, of which the ten-day annual Vaikanda Ekadasi during the&nbsp;Tamil&nbsp;month of&nbsp;Margazhi&nbsp;(December - January) and the Nammazhwar birth celebrations with Garudasevai with all nine temple of Navatirupathi, being the most prominent.

The temple is maintained and administered by the Hindu Religious and Endowment Board of the&nbsp;Government of Tamil Nadu.

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Puranam

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This temple history describes Vishnu&#39;s power to perform miracles to serve his devotees. Once one&nbsp;asura&nbsp;abducted Vishnu devotee named Vedasaran&#39;s wife Kumudhavalli. The asura performed magic tricks but was vanquished by Vishnu who danced on his head as Koothar.

And he restored Kumudhavalli to her husband.&nbsp;As per another legend, a childless couple named Devasaran and Kumudavalli were residing at a forest named Thadakavanam near Tholavallimangalam.

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Image of the gopuram

On account of their devotion to Vishnu, they got a gilr named Kamaladevi. Kamala was also a very ardent devotee and started doing penance. In spite of many convincing her against it, she was firm and wanted to attain Vishnu as her husband. Since a small girl performed penance at this place, the place came to be known as Palikavanam. From then, the place came to be known as Thirukulanthai.

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Varnam

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The temple has two prakarams (closed precincts of a temple). The temple has an image of Vishu facing east direction. Kulam refers to tank in Tamil language. The name of the village is derived from the same.

The temple is located in Tiruchendur-Tirunelveli route, Tamil Nadu, India in the banks of Thamiraparani river, in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The temple is constructed in Dravidian style of architecture. All the shrines of the temple are located in a rectangular granite walls, pierced by a three-tiered gopuram.

The presiding deity is sported in a sitting posture with Sridevi and Bhudevi on either of his sides. The images of Bhoodevi and Sridevi along with the festival images are located inside the sanctum. Since Garuda helped Vishnu in the war, he is always sported carrying both Vishnu and Lakshmi.

&nbsp;In modern times, the temple is maintained and administered by the Hindu Religious and Endowment Board of the Government of Tamil Nadu.&nbsp;The temple is one of the places where Vishnu has four consorts namely Sridevi, Bhudevi, Niladevi and Kamaladevi

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Highlights

Sevas/Festivals

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The&nbsp;Garuda&nbsp;Sevai utsavam(festival) in the month of Vaikasi (May-Jun) witnesses 9&nbsp;Garudasevai, a spectacular event in which festival image idols from the Nava Tirupathis shrines in the area are brought on&nbsp;Garuda&nbsp;vahana&nbsp;(sacred vehicle). An idol of&nbsp;Nammalvar&nbsp;is also brought here on an&nbsp;Anna Vahanam&nbsp;(palanquin) and his&nbsp;paasurams&nbsp;(verses) dedicated to each of these 9 temples are recited.

The&nbsp;utsavar&nbsp;(festival deity) of&nbsp;Nammalvar&nbsp;is taken in a palanquin to each of the 9 temples, through the paddy fields in the area. The&nbsp;paasurams&nbsp;(poems) dedicated to each of the 9&nbsp;Divyadesams&nbsp;are chanted in the respective shrines. This is the most important of the festivals in this area, and it draws thousands of visitors.

The temple follows the traditions of the&nbsp;Thenkalai&nbsp;sect of Vaishnavite tradition and follows&nbsp;Pancharathra aagama. The temple priests perform the&nbsp;pooja&nbsp;(rituals) during festivals and on a daily basis. As at other Vishnu temples of Tamil Nadu, the priests belong to the&nbsp;Vaishnavaite&nbsp;community, a Brahmin sub-caste.

Each ritual has three steps:&nbsp;alangaram&nbsp;(decoration),&nbsp;neivethanam&nbsp;(food offering) and&nbsp;deepa aradanai&nbsp;(waving of lamps) for both Mayakoothar and Thirukulandhai Nachiyar. During the last step of worship,&nbsp;nagaswaram&nbsp;(pipe instrument) and&nbsp;tavil&nbsp;(percussion instrument) are played, religious instructions in the&nbsp;Vedas&nbsp;(sacred text) are recited by priests, and worshippers prostrate themselves in front of the&nbsp;temple mast. There are weekly, monthly and fortnightly rituals performed in the temple.

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Temple umbrella

Brahmanda Purana one of the eighteen sacred texts of Hinduism and written by Veda Vyasa contains a chapter called Navathirupathi Mahatmeeyam. Vaikunta Mahatmeeyam is another work in Sanskrit that glorifies the temple and is a part of Tamraparani Sthalapurana available only in palm manuscripts.The temple is revered in Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the 7th&ndash;9th century Vaishnava canon, by Nammazhwar. The temple is classified as a Divyadesam, one of the 108 Vishnu temples that are mentioned in the book.

The temple is also classified as a Navatirupathi, the nine temples revered by Nammazhwar located in the banks of Tamiraparani river. Nammazhwar makes a reference about the temple in his works in Thirvaimozhi. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the temple finds mention in several works like 108 Tirupathi Anthathi by Divya Kavi Pillai Perumal Aiyangar.

Sculpture in the temple

The temple also forms a series of Navagraha temples where each of the nine planetary deities of one of the temples of Navatirupathi. The temple is associated with the planet Shani (Saturn).

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Timing

The temple rituals are performed six times a day:&nbsp;Kalasanthi&nbsp;at 8:00&nbsp;a.m.,&nbsp;Uchikalam&nbsp;at 12:00&nbsp;p.m.,&nbsp;Sayarakshai&nbsp;at 6:00&nbsp;p.m., and&nbsp;Ardha Jamam&nbsp;at 8:00&nbsp;p.m.

Temple Timings (Opening and Closing):

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			<td>Temple</td>
			<td>Graha</td>
			<td>Morning Hours</td>
			<td>Evening Hours</td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Sir Vaikuntanathan Perumal Temple</td>
			<td>Surya</td>
			<td>7:00 AM &ndash; 12:00 Noon</td>
			<td>5:00 PM &ndash; 8:00 PM</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Natham Perumal</td>
			<td>Chandra</td>
			<td>8:00 AM &ndash; 1:00 Noon</td>
			<td>1:30 PM &ndash; 6:00 PM</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Thiru Puliyangudi</td>
			<td>Budhan</td>
			<td>8:00 AM &ndash; 1:00 Noon</td>
			<td>1:30 PM &ndash; 6:00 PM</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Rettai Tirupathi &ndash; North</td>
			<td>Rahu</td>
			<td>8:00 AM &ndash; 1:00 Noon</td>
			<td>2:00 PM &ndash; 6:00 PM</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Rettai Tirupathi &ndash; South</td>
			<td>Ketu</td>
			<td>8:30 AM &ndash; 1:00 Noon</td>
			<td>2:00 PM &ndash; 6:00 PM</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Perungulam</td>
			<td>Shani</td>
			<td>7:30 AM &ndash; 12:00 PM</td>
			<td>5:00 PM &ndash; 8:00 PM</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Then Thirupperai</td>
			<td>Sukran</td>
			<td>7:00 AM &ndash; 12:00 PM</td>
			<td>5:00 PM &ndash; 8:30 PM</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Thirukolur</td>
			<td>Chevvai</td>
			<td>7:30 AM &ndash; 12:00 PM</td>
			<td>1:00 Noon &ndash; 8:00 PM</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Alwarthirunagari</td>
			<td>Vyazhan</td>
			<td>7:00 AM &ndash; 12:00 PM</td>
			<td>5:00 PM &ndash; 8:00 PM</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>

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