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Sangameswarar temple&nbsp;(also called&nbsp;Thirunana&nbsp;and&nbsp;Thirukooduthurai) is a temple in&nbsp;Bhavani, in the&nbsp;Erode district, of the&nbsp;Indian state&nbsp;of&nbsp;Tamil Nadu. It is a&nbsp;Hindu temple&nbsp;dedicated to Lord&nbsp;Shiva. It is 15&nbsp;km from&nbsp;Erode, 30&nbsp;km from&nbsp;Gobichettipalayam, 56&nbsp;km from&nbsp;Salem&nbsp;and 106&nbsp;km from&nbsp;Coimbatore.

The temple was built at the confluence of rivers&nbsp;Kaveri,&nbsp;Bhavani&nbsp;and the mystic&nbsp;Amutha&nbsp;(Agaya Gangai).

The temple was praised in old Tamil literature as&nbsp;Thirunana. The place is also known as Dakshina Triveni Sangamam and&nbsp;Kooduthurai&nbsp;indicating the confluence of three rivers. Devotees perform last rites for ancestors on the riverbank and offer prayers at the Sangameshwarar temple.

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It is one of the shrines of the 275&nbsp;Paadal Petra Sthalams. The&nbsp;Nayanmars&nbsp;Thevaram&nbsp;pathigam is composed by&nbsp;Sambandar.

He had composed 10 poems in this temple in the praise of the lord which comes under 2nd Thirumurai. Saint&nbsp;Arunagirinathar&nbsp;who visited Thirunanaa, has composed many songs (Thirupugazh) on Lord&nbsp;Subramanya.

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Puranam

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Kubera, son of&nbsp;Vishrava&nbsp;was gifted an aircraft to visit Shiva temples across the country in recognition of his devotion to Lord Shiva.

While he was flying near the river Cauvery&nbsp;Kubera&nbsp;was surprised to see a deer, tiger, cow, elephant, snake, and rat drinking water near an&nbsp;Ilandhai&nbsp;tree on the river bank without enmity, to answer his wonder&nbsp;Kubera&nbsp;heard a voice from the sky saying it was a place where&nbsp;vedas&nbsp;visited, inhabited by&nbsp;Gandharvas&nbsp;and advised him to worship the&nbsp;shiva lingam&nbsp;under the&nbsp;iilanadhi&nbsp;tree.

The temples&nbsp;Ilandhai&nbsp;tree gives fruit on all season and was used for everyday puja even today.

The cow behind the Vishnu statue remains the harmony between&nbsp;Saivism&nbsp;and&nbsp;Vaishnavism. It was said that every inch under the temple has one&nbsp;shiva lingam. The presiding deity is believed to have been worshipped by&nbsp;Kubera&nbsp;and sages&nbsp;Vishvamitra&nbsp;and&nbsp;Parasara.

During the period of Chera Chola and Pandya, there was a cave connection between the&nbsp;Chidambaram&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sangameshwarar&nbsp;temples and puja&#39;s are performed at same time in both temples.

In the year 1804, William Karo, a British Collector of&nbsp;Coimbatore&nbsp;district, visited&nbsp;Bhavani, camping in the Travellers&#39;&nbsp;Bungalow. One night, a small girl woke him up and got him out of the Bungalow when he was asleep. Once they were out, the Bungalow collapsed. Shocked by this incident, the Collector turned to thank the girl but to find, she wasn&#39;t there.

The next day, the priest on duty informed him that it was Bhavani Vedanaayaki Amman, who saved his life. He bore three holes in the temple wall opposite Vedanaayaki Amman shrine and torched these holes to pray the goddess. He offered a gold plate to the goddess with his signature dated 11/01/1804. The holes and the gold plate are present even now and are taken care of with caution.

The temple is maintained and administered by the&nbsp;Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Government of Tamil Nadu.

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The temple is constructed on a 4-acre (16,000&nbsp;m2) plot. The main&nbsp;RajaGopuram&nbsp;with 5 tiers is located on the north side of the temple. The presiding deity is Lord Shiva known as Sangameswarar along with his consort Pannaar Mozhiyaal or Vedanayagi. A shrine dedicated to&nbsp;Kartikeya&nbsp;is situated between the shrines of Siva and Parvati.

There is also separate shrine inside the temple for Lord&nbsp;Vishnu&nbsp;and his consort Soundaravalli Thaayar. The stala vriksham is an ilandai (Zizyphus mauritiana) tree. The annual Brahmotsavam is celebrated in the&nbsp;Tamil month&nbsp;of Chitrai.

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Ghat where sacrifices are performed

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Rock status of this temple represents the beauty of stone carving and the culture of the people. When water or milk poured on the two identical stone statues in front of&nbsp;ambal sannidhi- Hindu goddess, one smiles at you, while the other sheds tears at you. The temple got a precious&nbsp;Ambal&nbsp;statue, a Hindu goddess donated by a district collector during British period for saving his life. Of all the seven holy Shiva centers of the Kongu Region,&nbsp;Bhavani&nbsp;is known as&nbsp;Thirunana&nbsp;in script. The holy waters of Sangameswarar temple is known as&nbsp;Cauvery theertham,&nbsp;Surya theertham&nbsp;and&nbsp;Gayatri theertham.

The Amirthalingeswarar in the temple is placed on a seat called Avudayar according to Saiva principles. It is a mobile one that can be removed and placed on the seat again. Men and women seeking boons for children take the Sivalinga, perform puja and walk around it for three times and place it back on the Avudayar. The Amirthalinga is in the southern entrance of the temple.

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