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Vardhamaneswarar ,Karunthazhkuzhali

Tiruppugalur Vardhamaneswaram&nbsp;is a&nbsp;Hindu temple&nbsp;located in Tiruppugalur in the&nbsp;Tiruvarur district&nbsp;of&nbsp;Tamil Nadu,&nbsp;India.

It is one of the shrines of the 275&nbsp;Paadal Petra Sthalams. Praises of the temple have been sung by&nbsp;Sambandar&nbsp;in the&nbsp;Thevaram. It is considered to be the 76th in the series of Tevara Stalams in the&nbsp;Chola&nbsp;kingdom located south of the river Kaveri.&nbsp;

This is 139th temple in the Chola country&nbsp;&nbsp;Sambandar sings about the deity as &quot;Vasa mamalar udayar Vardhamaneswarathare...&quot; as under:

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ஈசன்ஏறமர்கடவுள் இன்னமுது எந்தை எம்பெருமான் 
பூசுமாசில் வெண்ணீற்றர் பொலிவுடைப் பூம்புகலூரில் 
மூசுவண்டறை ன்றை முருகன்முப்போதுஞ் செய்முடிமேல் 
வாசமாமல ருடையார் வர்த்த மானீச்சரத்தாரே.

Of the Paadal Petra Sthalams Thiruppugalur Vardhamaneeswaram is the 76th temple.&nbsp;This is found in the Chola Naadu of Tamil Nadu in the South of river&nbsp;Kaveri&nbsp;(128 temples)&nbsp;

The temple Theertham is known as Agni Theertham. This Shivastalam is a part of the&nbsp;Agnipureeswarar Temple, Thirupugalur&nbsp;temple&nbsp;The vimanas of these shrines are found side by side.

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The presiding deity is&nbsp;Shiva. He is known as Vardhamaneswarar. The goddess of the temple is Karunthazhkuzhali.As the shrines of Vardhamaneswarar and Agniswarar are found as one shrine one has to circumambulate these shrines at one stretch. It is not possible to go around the shrine of Vardhamaneswarar.

Apart from this presiding deity has no separate flagpost and kosta sculptures.The presiding deity is also known as Konal lingam, i.e., it appears as distorted or skewed manner. So, it is also known as Konal Piran.

Vaikasi Visakam&nbsp;festival is celebrated in a grand manner in this temple

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