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Temple Name

Sthalam

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Makara Nedunkuzhaikathar Temple&nbsp;is one of the&nbsp;Nava Tirupathi, nine&nbsp;Hindu&nbsp;temples dedicated to&nbsp;Vishnu&nbsp;located&nbsp;Thenthiruperai&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.

&nbsp;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;Sukra sthalam, a location for the planet deity,&nbsp;Sukra. 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 Makara Nedunkuzhaikathar and his consort&nbsp;Lakshmi&nbsp;as Thiruperai Nachiyar.

A granite wall surrounds the temple, enclosing all its shrines. The&nbsp;rajagopuram, the temple&#39;s gateway tower, is flat 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.The same place hosts one of the Navakailasams, Sri Kailasanathar Temple, Then Thirupperai, the seventh in the series.

Puranam

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As per&nbsp;Hindu&nbsp;legend, once&nbsp;Lakshmi, the consort of&nbsp;Vishnu&nbsp;was left alone as he went to earth and lived with&nbsp;Bhudevi.&nbsp;Lakshmi&nbsp;prayed to sage&nbsp;Durvasa&nbsp;to give her the beauty of&nbsp;Bhudevi. The sage went to meet&nbsp;Bhudevi, who was with Vishnu. She pretended not to have seen the sage. In his fury, the sage cursed Bhudevi to transfer her form to Lakshmi.

Bhudevi pleaded with the sage to propitiate her off the curse. The sage asked her to pray&nbsp;Vishnu&nbsp;on the banks of river Tamirabarani. On a new moon day when she was doing the prayer in the river, she found a pair of ear rings in the form of a fish.

She offered it to&nbsp;Vishnu&nbsp;who appeared before him. When Vishnu accepted the ear ring, Bhudevi got her original form. Since Bhudevi offered&nbsp;Makara kundala, the ear rings, the presiding deity came to be known as Makara Nedunkuzhaikathar, the one who attained the ear rings.

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Varnam

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The temple is located in&nbsp;Tiruchendur-Tirunelveli&nbsp;route,&nbsp;Tamil Nadu,&nbsp;India&nbsp;in the banks of&nbsp;Thamiraparani&nbsp;river, in the South Indian state of&nbsp;Tamil Nadu. The temple is constructed in&nbsp;Dravidian style of architecture. All the shrines of the temple are located in a rectangular granite walls, pierced by a three-tiered&nbsp;gopuram. The presiding deity is sported in a standing 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.In modern times, the temple is maintained and administered by the Hindu Religious and Endowment Board of the&nbsp;Government of Tamil Nadu.Brahmanda Purana&nbsp;one of the eighteen sacred texts of Hinduism and written by&nbsp;Veda Vyasa&nbsp;contains a chapter called Navathirupathi Mahatmeeyam.&nbsp;

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Image of the Thayar shrine

Vaikunta Mahatmeeyam&nbsp;is another work in&nbsp;Sanskrit&nbsp;that glorifies the temple and is a part of&nbsp;Tamraparani Sthalapurana&nbsp;available only in palm manuscripts.&nbsp;The temple is revered in&nbsp;Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the 7th&ndash;9th century Vaishnava canon, by&nbsp;Nammazhwar. The temple is classified as a&nbsp;Divyadesam, one of the 108 Vishnu temples that are mentioned in the book.

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

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&nbsp;Sukra&nbsp;(Venus).

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 a&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 Nammalvar 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 divya desams 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.

A hall inside the temple

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. Each ritual has three steps:&nbsp;alangaram&nbsp;(decoration),&nbsp;neivethanam&nbsp;(food offering) and&nbsp;deepa aradanai&nbsp;(waving of lamps) for both Makara Nedunkuzhaikathar and Thiruperai 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.

Timing

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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