We did manage to find the navagraha sthalas I mentioned in my previous posting. Fortunately, these temples were in good condition, if not very well-maintained. So, we didn't have much work here, but for the kethu sthala in gerukambakkam (gurukambakkam?). Chandrasekar aka plasticschandra has a well written post for every sthala, for which I have provided a map at http://puggy.symonds.net/~madan/navagraha/tour.html Dont forget to click on the red-dots to see chandra's blogger posts and pictures of each of the temples!
Fascinating thing is all these were chola-built (at least a thousand years old), and are built by the beautiful gajaprishta (like the back of an elephant) architecture. (see pic). Beautiful sight!
So, next time you have to do a parihaaram for one of the navagrahas, remember, you have these sthalas very close to Chennai. You dont have to travel all the way to the Tanjore district for dosha-parihaaram!
Actually it took us longer to upload the map and the pictures. In the meanwhile, we have visited a couple of dilapidated shrines in pudhu gummidipoondi. The village head has cordially agreed to help us with men and material to clean these temples as a first-step. More reports and pictures of pudhu gummidipoondi in my next blog. Stay tuned!
1 comment:
Hello Madan, That was very interesting!! Well written and nice pics too...
In fact I have a sililar blog about The Navagraha temples in TN ( some of them near Kumbakonam) which my family and I visited last month. You can find all the details of our trip there.
Please visit my blog:
http://nageshkumarcs.blogspot.com/
Hope to see you there
Regards,
Nagesh
Chennai
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