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Sri Agastheeswarar ,Akilandeswari</h2>

Agastheeswarar Temple&nbsp;(அகஸ்தீஸ்வரர் கோயில்) is a&nbsp;Hindu temple&nbsp;dedicated to&nbsp;Shiva, located in the town of Agathiyampalli,&nbsp;Nagapattinam district&nbsp;in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu,&nbsp;India. The presiding deity is revered in the seventh century Tamil Saiva canonical work, the&nbsp;Tevaram, written by Tamil saint poets known as the&nbsp;nayanmars&nbsp;and classified as&nbsp;Paadal Petra Sthalam. The temple is locally called Agasthiyar Kovil.

It has several inscriptions dating back to the medieval&nbsp;Chola&nbsp;and later&nbsp;Pandya&nbsp;period. The temple has six daily rituals at various times and three yearly festivals. The temple has several shrines with that of Agastiswara and his consort Pakampiriyal Nayagi being the most prominent. The annual&nbsp;Brahmotsavam&nbsp;(prime festival) is attended by thousands of devotees from far and near.

The town Agasthiyanpalli is named after Agastheeswarar, the presiding deity of the Agastheeswarar Temple, a&nbsp;Hindu temple&nbsp;dedicated to&nbsp;Shiva. The seventh century&nbsp;Saiva&nbsp;canonical work&nbsp;Tevaram&nbsp;by Appar and Tirugnanasambandar mentions the place as &quot;Tirumaraikadu&quot;.

According to legend, all the&nbsp;Devas&nbsp;were assembled in&nbsp;Kailash&nbsp;to witness the sacred marriage of Shiva and&nbsp;Parvathi&nbsp;and on account of it, the earth tilted towards North. To balance it, Shiva requested sage&nbsp;Agasthiyar&nbsp;to move over to the South. It is believed that Shiva appeared in his marriage form to Agasthiyar at this location.

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The recorded history of Agasthiyanpalli and the regions around it is found from the inscriptions in Agastheeswarar Temple and the&nbsp;Vedaranyeswarar Temple. The inscriptions date from the reign of&nbsp;Rajaraja Chola I&nbsp;(985&ndash;1014 CE),&nbsp;Rajendra Chola I&nbsp;(1012&ndash;1044 CE) and&nbsp;Kulothunga Chola I&nbsp;(1070&ndash;1120 CE) indicating various grants to the temple.

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Vimana of the presiding deity

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A shrine inside the temple

Agasthiyanpalli continued to be a part of the Chola Empire and the Chola region emerged as a centre of Saivism during the reign of Kulothunga Chola I (1070&ndash;1120 CE).[5]&nbsp;After the fall of Cholas during the reign of&nbsp;Rajendra Chola II&nbsp;in the 13th century CE, the erstwhile Chola region was caught under a power struggle between Pandyas and&nbsp;Hoysalas.

The royal patronage continued to the temple during the rule of the&nbsp;Nayaks.&nbsp;The inscriptions from the Pandya king Kulacekarn (1268 - 1309) indicates that he was cured off his ailments after praying at the temple. He constituted a festival at&nbsp;Vedaranyeswarar temple&nbsp;to commemorate the event.

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The Agastheeswarar temple complex has three prakarams and a three-tiered rajagopuram. The central shrine faces east and holds the image of Agastheeswarar (Shiva) in the form of a lingam made of granite and the shrine of Parvathi in the form of Pakampiriyal faces west.

There are granite images of the deities Ganesha, Murugan, Nandi and Navagraha located in the hall leading to the sanctum and as in other Shiva temples of Tamil Nadu, the first precinct of the sanctum of Agastheeswarar has images of Dakshinamurthy, Durga and Chandikeswarar.

There is also a shrine with the image of Agasthiyar enshrined in it. The second precinct is surrounded by granite walls and the temple tank inside the temple is called Agni Theertham.

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A shrine inside the temple

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Sevas/Festivals

The presiding deity is revered in the seventh century Tamil Saiva canonical work, the Tevaram, written by Tamil saint poets known as the nayanmars and classified as Paadal Petra Sthalam. Sambandar has revered the Agatheeswarar in ten verses classified in second Tirumurai.

The temple priests perform the puja (rituals) during festivals and on a daily basis. Like other Shiva temples of Tamil Nadu, the priests belong to the Shaiva community, a Brahmin sub-caste. The temple rituals are performed six times a day; Ushathkalam at 5:30 a.m., Kalasanthi at 8:00 a.m., Uchikalam at 10:00 a.m., Sayarakshai at 5:00 p.m., Irandamkalam at 7:00 p.m. and Ardha Jamam at 8:00 p.m. Each ritual comprises four steps: abhisheka (sacred bath), alangaram (decoration), naivethanam (food offering) and deepa aradanai (waving of lamps) for both Agastheeswarar and Amman.

The worship is held amidst music with nagaswaram (pipe instrument) and tavil (percussion instrument), religious instructions in the Vedas (sacred texts) read by priests and prostration by worshippers in front of the temple mast. There are weekly rituals like somavaram (Monday) and sukravaram (Friday), fortnightly rituals like pradosham and monthly festivals like amavasai (new moon day), kiruthigai, pournami (full moon day) and sathurthi.

&nbsp;The twin festivals celebrated during the full moon days of Tamil month Adi (July &ndash; August) and Thai (January &ndash; February) attract large number of pilgrims from whole of Tamil Nadu. Pilgrims take a holy dip in the seashore round the year and the holy dip is considered similar to the worship practises at Rameswaram.

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