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Kripapureeswarar , Mangalambigai

Kripapureeswarar Temple (also called&nbsp;Arutkondanathar&nbsp;or&nbsp;Thiruvennainallur temple) in&nbsp;Thiruvennainallur, a panchayat town in&nbsp;Villupuram district&nbsp;in the South Indian state of&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, is dedicated to the Hindu god&nbsp;Shiva.

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;Nayanmars&nbsp;and classified as&nbsp;Paadal Petra Sthalam. The temple is closely associated with&nbsp;Sundarar, the saivite saint of the 8th century, who started composing his&nbsp;Tirumurai&nbsp;starting with &quot;Pitha Piraisudi&quot; verse in this temple.

Constructed in the&nbsp;Dravidian style of architecture, the present structure of the temple is believed to have been built during the&nbsp;Cholas&nbsp;period in the 10th century.

The temple has received gracious endowments from the Chola queen&nbsp;Sembiyan Mahadevi. Shiva is worshipped as Kripapureeswarar and his consort&nbsp;Parvathi&nbsp;as Mangalambigai.

A granite wall surrounds the temple, enclosing all its shrines. The temple has a five-tiered rajagopuram, the gateway tower.

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Image of the 100 pillared hall outside the main tower

The temple is open from 6am - 11 am and 4-8:00 pm on all days except during festival days when it is open the full day.

Four daily rituals and many yearly festivals are held at the temple, of which the Aadi star day celebrated during the&nbsp;Tamil month&nbsp;of&nbsp;Aaadi&nbsp;(June - July) for&nbsp;Sundarar&nbsp;and Panguni Uthiram festival during&nbsp;Panguni&nbsp;(March - April) with a float festival being the most prominent.

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

Puranam

As per Hindu legend, the sages in Tharukavanam were very proud of their achievements and started doing a penance to destroy&nbsp;Shiva. Shiva absorbed all the evils from the penance and realising their mistake, the sages started their worship to Shiva. Shiva blessed them with their wishes and came to be known as Krupapureeswarar, the &quot;God who would bestow wishes of the devotees&quot;.

As per another legend,&nbsp;Sundarar, the famous Saivite saint and&nbsp;Nayanmar, was stopped by an old man from marrying at Thirukovilur.

&nbsp;He showed a document indicating Sundarar was indebted to the old man for serving him for a lifetime. Sundarar called him&nbsp;Pitha, a lunatic. The village elders after analysing the document, asked Sundarar to follow the old man. Sundarar followed the old mand and served him in his household. It was later revealed to him that Shiva appeared as the old man to test his servitude.

&nbsp;Sundarar felt guilty of accusing Shiva, but Shiva revealed to him in a divine voice that he enjoyed the verse and requested him to sing verses starting with &quot;Pitha&quot;. Sundarar started singing his&nbsp;Tirumurai&nbsp;with &quot;Pitha Piraisudi&quot; verse in this temple and later would go on to become one of the four most venerated saints of Saiva literature.

Varnam

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The exact year of building could not be ascertained from the inscriptions, but the inscriptions found in the Visalur temple indicate benevolent gifts to the temple from&nbsp;Raja Raja Chola I&nbsp;(984-1015 CE) and his successors.

Based on the inscriptions, researchers point out that the temple had gardens, which were supposed to have both floral plants and fruit bearing trees.&nbsp;The temple has received gracious endowments from the Chola queen&nbsp;Sembiyan Mahadevi&nbsp;and is believed to have established various sculptures.

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Kripapureeswar temple is located in&nbsp;Thiruvennainallur, a village located 19&nbsp;km (12&nbsp;mi) from&nbsp;Villupuram&nbsp;on the&nbsp;Panruti-&nbsp;Thirukovilur&nbsp;road.&nbsp;The temple has a seven-tiered&nbsp;rajagopuram, the gateway tower that pierces the rectangular wall that houses all the shrines. The sanctum houses the image of Kripapureeswarar in the form of&nbsp;Lingam, an iconic form of Shiva.

There is an Ardha&nbsp;Mandap&nbsp;and a Mukha mandap, pillared halls leading to the sanctum. The first precinct has the images of&nbsp;Vinayakar,&nbsp;Murugan,&nbsp;Durga,&nbsp;Dakshinamurthy&nbsp;and&nbsp;Chandikeswara.

The hall where the case was fought between the old man and Sundarar is believed to be the Panchyat Mandap located on the right side of the entrance.

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Image of Vinayagar and Muruga on the temple tower

The temple follows Saivite tradition. The temple priests perform the&nbsp;pooja&nbsp;(rituals) during festivals and on a daily basis.

The temple rituals are performed four times a day:&nbsp;Kalasanthi&nbsp;at 6:00&nbsp;a.m.,&nbsp;Uchikalam&nbsp;at 11:00&nbsp;a.m.,&nbsp;Sayarakshai&nbsp;at 5:00&nbsp;p.m., and&nbsp;Sayarakshai&nbsp;between 7:45&nbsp;&nbsp;- 8:00&nbsp;p.m. Each ritual has three steps:&nbsp;alangaram&nbsp;(decoration),&nbsp;neivethanam&nbsp;(food offering) and&nbsp;deepa aradanai&nbsp;(waving of lamps) for both Kripapureeswarar and Mangalambigai. There are weekly, monthly and fortnightly rituals performed in the temple.

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&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kripapureeswarar_temple,_Thiruvennainallur_(1).jpg"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Kripapureeswarar_temple%2C_Thiruvennainallur_%281%29.jpg/250px-Kripapureeswarar_temple%2C_Thiruvennainallur_%281%29.jpg" style="height:141px; width:250px" /></a>

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The shrine of Amman located parallel to the Shiva shrine

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Aadi star day celebrated during the&nbsp;Tamil month&nbsp;of&nbsp;Aaadi&nbsp;(June - July) as&nbsp;Sundarar&#39;s birthday and Panguni Uthiram festival during&nbsp;Panguni&nbsp;(March - April) with a float festival being the most prominent festivals. There are other common festivals like&nbsp;Shivaratri,&nbsp;Vinayaga Chaturthi,&nbsp;Vijayadasami&nbsp;and Karthigai Deepam celebrated in the temple.

Sundarar, an 8th-century Tamil&nbsp;Saivite&nbsp;poet, venerated Kripapureeswarar in ten verses in&nbsp;Tevaram, compiled as the&nbsp;Seventh Tirumurai. As the temple is revered in&nbsp;Tevaram, it is classified as&nbsp;Paadal Petra Sthalam, one of the 275 temples that find mention in the Saiva canon.[9]&nbsp;Appar&nbsp;is believed to have visited the temple during the series of visits from Thingalur to&nbsp;Thirukovilur&nbsp;and&nbsp;Pennadam.In modern times, the temple is maintained and administered by the Hindu Religious and Endowment Board of the&nbsp;Government of Tamil Nadu.

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