A weekend evening in chennai, hustle bustle streets of parrys corner is the place where we were all set to go to find out something. Being the most congested and busiest part of the city, parrys corner has something to be signified historically.
We arrived at Beach railway station from where suburban trains are connected to tambaram, chengalpet etc. Walking some yards from beach station, we found some set of cycle rickshaws waiting for customers. It should have been some decades before where cycle rickshaws was found through-out chennai.
So we took a rickshaw to visit Kalikambal temple. The significance of this temple is with chatrapathi shivaji. A culvert in the temple entrance acknowledges his visit. Apart from being the most ancient, it can be also be characterized as the most crowded, which specifies the huge crowd in the temple day after day. After worshiping the goddess in between the huge crowd, we stepped out finally after a long struggle. But a presence of divine power cannot be denied in any case.
We then planned to see another temple called Kandha Kottam or kandhaswamy temple near rattan bazaar. Meanwhile hunger quenched our stomach as we were searching for a proper place to settle down and finally concluded to take it up after the second temple visit. But luckily we saw a small shop selling hot Vadas. We grabbed some and by eating it we sauntered our way to kandha kottam.
This temple was built by two people who are claimed to be staunch devotees of Thiruporur murugan. Mari Chetty and Kandapandaram were on the way to thiruporur temple. they decided to rest and move on the next day as it was already night time. That night, mari chetty had a dream that exposed him to a murugan idol hidden in a ant hill near the place where they were sleeping. Conceiving it to be true, they dug up the ant hill that was found near the place where they were sleeping and luckily found a murugan idol. It was brought back to the place where they live and built a temple for lord muruga, which is now called as Kandhaswamy temple.
Even after visiting these two temples we wanted to go for someothers too. Unlikely we are running out of time and need to get back home soon.
We arrived at Beach railway station from where suburban trains are connected to tambaram, chengalpet etc. Walking some yards from beach station, we found some set of cycle rickshaws waiting for customers. It should have been some decades before where cycle rickshaws was found through-out chennai.
So we took a rickshaw to visit Kalikambal temple. The significance of this temple is with chatrapathi shivaji. A culvert in the temple entrance acknowledges his visit. Apart from being the most ancient, it can be also be characterized as the most crowded, which specifies the huge crowd in the temple day after day. After worshiping the goddess in between the huge crowd, we stepped out finally after a long struggle. But a presence of divine power cannot be denied in any case.
We then planned to see another temple called Kandha Kottam or kandhaswamy temple near rattan bazaar. Meanwhile hunger quenched our stomach as we were searching for a proper place to settle down and finally concluded to take it up after the second temple visit. But luckily we saw a small shop selling hot Vadas. We grabbed some and by eating it we sauntered our way to kandha kottam.
This temple was built by two people who are claimed to be staunch devotees of Thiruporur murugan. Mari Chetty and Kandapandaram were on the way to thiruporur temple. they decided to rest and move on the next day as it was already night time. That night, mari chetty had a dream that exposed him to a murugan idol hidden in a ant hill near the place where they were sleeping. Conceiving it to be true, they dug up the ant hill that was found near the place where they were sleeping and luckily found a murugan idol. It was brought back to the place where they live and built a temple for lord muruga, which is now called as Kandhaswamy temple.
Even after visiting these two temples we wanted to go for someothers too. Unlikely we are running out of time and need to get back home soon.
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