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Padikasu Nathar , Soundaranayagi

Padikasu Nathar Temple&nbsp;(also called&nbsp;Swarnapureeswarar Temple) is a&nbsp;Hindu temple&nbsp;located at&nbsp;Azhagaputhur, a village in the&nbsp;Thanjavur district&nbsp;of&nbsp;Tamil Nadu,&nbsp;India.&nbsp;Shiva&nbsp;is worshiped as Padikasunathar, and is represented by the&nbsp;lingam.

His consort&nbsp;Parvati&nbsp;is depicted as Soundaranayagi. The presiding deity is revered in the 7th century Tamil Saiva canonical work, the&nbsp;Tevaram, written by Tamil saint poets known as the&nbsp;nayanars&nbsp;and classified as&nbsp;Paadal Petra Sthalam.&nbsp;

The 8th century&nbsp;Saiva&nbsp;saint poet&nbsp;Sundarar&nbsp;has sung praise about the temple in his works.

The temple is associated with&nbsp;Pugalthunai Nayanar, one of the 63&nbsp;Nayanmars, whose birth place was Alagaputhur. There are various inscriptions associated with the temple indicating contributions from&nbsp;Cholas.

The present masonry structure was built during the&nbsp;Chola dynasty&nbsp;in the 9th century, while later expansions are attributed to Thanjavur Nayaks during the 16th century.

The temple is built in&nbsp;Dravidian architecture&nbsp;with a three-storied&nbsp;gopuram, the gateway tower. The temple has numerous shrines, with those of Padikasunathar and Soundaranayagi being the most prominent. The temple complex houses many halls and two precincts. The temple has four daily rituals at various times from 6:30&nbsp;a.m. to 8 p.m., and two yearly festivals on its calendar.

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Vimana&nbsp;of the presiding deity

Praises of the temple have been sung in the&nbsp;Thevaram. Alagaputhur is the birthplace of&nbsp;Pugalthunai Nayanar, one of the 63&nbsp;Nayanmars.

As per legend, Pugazh Thunai was a poor farmer, but a staunch devotee of Shiva, used to bring pots of water for the ablution of the presiding deity of the temple.

During a year, there was heavy famine in the region and people were suffering. Pugazh Thunai still continued his service of offering water. On account of his old age and senility, he feel sick and fell over the image of the presiding deity.

He prayed to Shiva to relieve the people off the suffering. Shiva was pleased by his devotion and started offering a coin (called&nbsp;padikasu&nbsp;in&nbsp;Tamil) daily on account of which both the saint and the region were relieved. He continued his service and Shiva considered him one among the 63 nayanmars on account of his unflinching devotion.

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Puranam

Varnam

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The Padikasu Nathar Temple is located in the village of Alagaputhur which is situated at a distance of 6 kilometres from&nbsp;Kumbakonam&nbsp;on the way to&nbsp;Tiruvarur&nbsp;in&nbsp;Thanjavur district&nbsp;in the&nbsp;South Indian&nbsp;state of&nbsp;Tamil Nadu.There are shrines to Shiva,&nbsp;Vishnu&nbsp;and&nbsp;Murugan.

&nbsp;The idol of Shiva is a&nbsp;swayambhumurthy. There are images of Surya and Chandra close to entrance tower indicating the legend that both of them worshiped Shiva at this place.

The temple has two precincts and all the shrines are enclosed in concentric granite walls. The temple is approached through a three tiered gateway tower on the eastern side.

The sanctum is located axial to the gateway tower and the flagstaff located ahead of the entrance tower. The presiding deity in the form of&nbsp;lingam&nbsp;is housed in the sanctum. The shrine of the consort is located in a south facing shrine close to the sanctum. The image of Sundarar and Paravai Nachiyar is housed in the hall leading to the sanctum.

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Panoramic view of Padikasu Nathar temple.

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Sevas/Festivals

Shrines inside the temple

The temple priests perform the&nbsp;pooja&nbsp;(rituals) during festivals and on a daily basis. Like other Shiva temples of Tamil Nadu, the priests belong to the&nbsp;Shaivaite&nbsp;community, a Brahmin sub-caste. The temple rituals are performed six times a day; Ushathkalam at 6:30&nbsp;a.m., Uchikalam at 12:00&nbsp;p.m., Sayarakshai at 6:00&nbsp;p.m., and Ardha Jamam at 8:00&nbsp;p.m. Each ritual comprises four steps:&nbsp;abhisheka&nbsp;(sacred bath),&nbsp;alangaram&nbsp;(decoration),&nbsp;neivethanam&nbsp;(food offering) and&nbsp;deepa aradanai&nbsp;(waving of lamps) for both Mahalingeswarar and Pirguchuntaragujambigai.

There are weekly rituals like&nbsp;somavaram&nbsp;and&nbsp;sukravaram, fortnightly rituals like&nbsp;pradosham&nbsp;and monthly festivals like&nbsp;amavasai&nbsp;(new moon day),&nbsp;kiruthigai,&nbsp;pournami&nbsp;(full moon day) and&nbsp;sathurthi.

&nbsp;The most prominent festival of the temple, Maasimagam, is celebrated for ten days during the&nbsp;Tamil&nbsp;month of&nbsp;Maasi&nbsp;(February - March).

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The festival deity of Padikasunathar and his consort&nbsp;circumambulate the temple&nbsp;and the streets in the village in different vehicles. The other festivals in the temple are Nayanmar Guru Puja and Asesha Ayilya

It is one of the 275&nbsp;Paadal Petra Sthalams&nbsp;-&nbsp;Shiva Sthalams&nbsp;glorified in the early medieval&nbsp;Tevaram&nbsp;poems by Tamil Saivite&nbsp;Nayanar&nbsp;saints&nbsp;Tirunavukkarasar&nbsp;and&nbsp;Thirugnana Sambandar. The temple is revered in the verses of&nbsp;Tevaram, the 7th century saivite canonical work by the three saint poets namely,&nbsp;Appar,&nbsp;Sampantar&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sundarar. Appar has glorified the temple in five, Sundarar in one and Sambandar in six verses.

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There are nine holes in front of the presiding deity in the sanctum indicating that the planets come in the form of&nbsp;Vayu. Unlike other temples where&nbsp;Sun&nbsp;and&nbsp;Moon&nbsp;face east, but in this temple, they face each other. It is believed that the temple priests are heirs of Pugazhthunai Nayanar. As a worship practice, devotees places two coins at the pedestal of the presiding deity and take one back as a talisman.

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