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Pasupatheesvarar Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Siva located in Pasupathikoil of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India

This temple is situated at Pasupathikoil, at distance 14 km from Thanjavur in Thanjavur-Kumbakonam main road. This is the one of the seven sacred places of the Chakkarappalli Saptastana.

This temple is one of the seven shrines associated with Saptamartrikas (seven female deities in Siva temple).

&nbsp;Matrikas are the different forms Adi Parashakti. Matrikas are the personified powers of different Devas. Brahmani emerged from Brahma, Vaishnavi from Vishnu, Maheshvari from Shiva, Indrani from Indra, Kaumari from Skanda, Varahi from Varaha and Chamunda from Devi,&nbsp;and additionals are Narasimhi, Vinayaki. This is one of the Saptamangai sthalams, seven sacred places devoted to Devi.&nbsp;They are also called as Saptastanam of Chakkarappalli.&nbsp;They are:

Chakkarappalli,Ariyamangai,Sulamangalam,Nallichery,Pasupathikovil,Thazhamangai,Pullamangai.

This temple is located near&nbsp;Chakrapalli&nbsp;(about 16km from Thanjavur), in a place that is also called Pasumangai or Kallal Pasupati Koil. This temple is not to be confused with the&nbsp;Alanthuraiyar temple at nearby Pullamangai&nbsp;(also known as Vellalar Pasupati Koil), which is more popular amongst tourists and is also a Paadal Petra Sthalam. This temple is situated near the banks of the&nbsp;Kudamurutti river.

When Siva beats His drum (the&nbsp;udukku&nbsp;or&nbsp;damaru, named Dundubhi), beejakshara sound waves (also known as Maaheswara Sutrams) are generated, which grants the blessings of beeja veda shakti. The two sides of the drum are considered to be Pasu and Pati, referring to the jivatma and paramatma respectively. The paramatma redeems the jivatma from their bonds (paasam), which is the pasu-pati-paasam basis of&nbsp;Saiva Siddhantam. This temple is said to be one of the very few sacred paces where pasus (human souls) can worship in order to get to or stay on the path of wisdom, required to reach the divine.

Varahi &ndash; one of the&nbsp;Sapta Matrikas&nbsp;&ndash; heard Siva&rsquo;s drum beats here, and so this is a Varahi sthalam. It is also part of a set of 7 temples known as the Chakrapalli Sapta Matrika temples, associated with each of the seven sapta matrikas.&nbsp;These seven temples are also a Sapta Sthanam&nbsp;temple group, which have their annual Sapta Sthanam festival in the Tamil month of Panguni (March-April), which is an interesting festival by itself.

The place derives its name as Pasumangai, after Kamadhenu, the celestial cow, worshipped Siva (pasu = cow in Tamil).

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Parvati&nbsp;is said to have worshipped here, having taken the form of a Cakra bird (சக்கரவாக பறவை). Agastyar is also said to have worshipped at this temple. It is said that when two brothers called Nadasanma and Anavidya worshipped at this temple, Amman appeared to them in the form of a young woman (called&nbsp;arivai /&nbsp;அரிவை, referring to a woman aged between 20 and 25 in the early stage of motherhood).

Thought not a Paadal Petra Sthalam, this is one of the 78&nbsp;maadakoil&nbsp;temples built by&nbsp;Kochchenga Cholan, and was expanded by the medieval&nbsp;Cholas. Thereafter, the temple (and the area) were ravaged by floods, and later by Malik Kafur&rsquo;s troops. However, not all is lost, and several examples of the fine Chola&nbsp;architecture&nbsp;and&nbsp;iconography&nbsp;continue to remain here &ndash; particularly the&nbsp;Uchishta Ganapati&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Jyeshta Devi&nbsp;murtis. In relatively more recent times, the&nbsp;Nayaks&nbsp;have refurbished the temple. There are also some remnants of inscriptions in the temple, dating back to the&nbsp;Chola period. The raja gopuram also has some exceedingly intricate work in plaster, including depictions of the life of sage Markandeyar, the story of&nbsp;Kannappa Nayanar, and Siva depicted with eight arms.

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The presiding deity in the garbhagriha is represented by the lingam known as Pasupatheesvarar. The Goddess is known as Palvalanayaki. The shrine of the presiding deity has mahamandapa, arthamandapa, anthrala and the garbhagriha. In the east, facing west Kasi Visvanatha linga, Subramania, Chandra and Surya are found. In between Chandra and Surya a window is found.

At the east of the window a path is found for walking. Along with it a small gopura, in a different style is found. It is presumed that there might have been a gopura earlier and might have been destroyed. In due course it might have been built.&nbsp;As Varaha saved the earth from the asura, Kali in order to save from asuras, as Varahi appeared and worshipped the presiding deity.

Kamadhenu did penance in this place. So many places were identified by cows. This is one such sacred place. The presiding deity was worshipped by the cow and so the Goddess was known as Palvalanayaki. While Anavidyanatha Sharma along with his wife came and worshipped here, she also blessed them.

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This temple was first built by Kochchenganan.The temple is situated in the north east of the village. The entrance is facing east. It has three tier rajagopura, the biggest in these seven temples. On either side of the entrance sculptures of Thanjavur Nayak style are found. After crossing over the 7 m x 10 m entrance of the gopura, one can enter into the temple premises.

It has two structures one for presiding deity and another for the consort. This temple has one big outer prakara. A bali pita and rishaba are found in the outer prakara. In the prakara, vilva tree, shrines of Dakshinamurthy, Jestadevi, Nagavalli, temple well, Sanisvara and Bhairava are found. In the north west of the outer prakara two shrines are found

In one shrine naga devata is set up. Next to this shrine, Gajalakshmi shrine is found. Through the steps found in southern side, the shrine of the presiding deity could be reached. The shrine is 5 m above the ground floor. Upper floor has two sections. In this floor shrines of Uchista Vinayaka, presiding deity and Goddess are found. The main shrines are found on the upper floor, at a height of 3 m. After going through the steps Ganesha shrine could be reached.

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