Patanjali Manoharar Temple

Overview

This temple is One of 275 Siva Devara Sthalam. The place is near Municipal office of Thiruvarore.Patanjali Manoharar temple is a temple of Lord Shiva, situated around 7 kms from Tiruvarur town. Driving on Tiruvarur-Tanjavore street, we hit a T-Junction of Vilamal. Proceed with and take left at a Peepul tree, inverse transport stop and a prompt right-you are in Patanjali Manoharar temple. Over 1000 years of age. This old temple is 90th Shiva temple in Thevaram psalms. The temple has been surprisingly enhanced by Swami Chandrasekhar Shivacharya, a holy person who lives in the temple. He generally respects the pioneers with a grinning face and favors them entire heartedly. It is trusted that whatever he says works out. There is a pond in front of the temple known as Agni theertham. The temple ceiling has some old paintings depicting the history. Bairavar is Ksetrablakar, so there is no Navagrahm in the temple. Lord Siva showed his Viswaroopa darshanam here, so Nandi head is turned to side. Thiru Gyana Sambandhar sang Hymns on Lord Siva of this temple. Sundrar and Thiru Navukkarasar had mentioned about Lord Siva of this temple in their compositions.

About the Temple

There is no raja Gopuram for the temple. We see Gnapathy and Murugan to either side of the divider close to the primary passage. There is only a patio nursery in the external prakaram. We see Bali peetam and Nandhi as we enter inside the second passage. As we circumvent the prakaram, we see separate sannidhi for Siddhi Vinayakar, Mahalakshmi, Subramanyar with Valli Devanai. There is a well found in this prakaram, and there is a different sanctum for Biravar. Bairavar symbol is enormous here." Pushkrani in front of the temple is known as Agni teertham and Sthala Vruksham is Vilvam. Ambaal sannidhi, and Nataraja sannidhi here. There is a Maha mandapam, Artha mandapam and main sanctum.  Patanjali Muni, Sooryan and Vygyapadhar sculptures are seen before, we enter into Artha mandapam. Main Deity is Swayambu Lingam of mud. Inside the main sanctum swayambu Mud Lingam, at the back of Siva Lingam we see Natarajar and padam in front of the main Deity Patanjali Manohar.known as Patanjali Manohar and his consort Madhura Bashini. This is one of Sakthi peeda sthalam. Srichakkram is seen in Ambaal hastham. There is third eye for goddess here which cool and pleasant like chandran.   Inside the main sanctum swayambu Mud Lingam, at the back of Siva Lingam we see Natarajar, and Rudra padam to front of main Deity Patanjali Manohar.As go around the inner prakaram, we can see Dakshina Moorthy, Maha Vishnu, Brahma, Sri Durgi as Kostha moortham and Chandikeswarar in small sanctum.Here lord Shiva is facing east and the goddess Madhurabhashini, facing south.It is believed that lord Shiva was worshipped by Saint Patanjali said to be an incarnation of Adi Shesha, depicted here as snake body with human head and Saint Vygradhar, as tiger body with human head. The worship of Shiva by these two saints has been inscribed on the southern wall of the temple.Southern wall of the temple has an Idol of Dakshina Murty and Ganapathi at the South west corner.Western wall of the temple has an Idol of Narayana and a small shrine for goddess Lakshmi is located in front of Narayana idol.Northern wall of the temple has an idol of Brahma and goddess Chamundeshwari.North eastern corner of the temple has a shrine for Sri Bhairavar.

Legend/Story

Purana says Pathanjali muni penanced and worshiped Lord Siva to see Nataraja's move. Ruler Siva was satisfied with his love and demonstrated his move execution at Thillai (Chidambaram). As of now Vyagayapadha muni was likewise there to see the move of Lord Siva. They were glad, and asked for Lord Siva to perform Ajaba Natanam and Rudhra Thandavam for them and Padha Darshanam for fans. Master Siva requesting that they go to Sripuram (Thiruvarore) where they can see his execution and Padha Darshnam. They came to Thiruvarore where they saw Siva Lingam all over. They worshiped Kamalambal. According to her, direction Patanjali muni made a Siva Lingam of mud, and they worshiped Lord Siva. Ruler Siva was satisfied and performed Ajaba Natanam for their purpose, and demonstrated his Padha darshan, which is known as "Rudhara Padham". Master Vishnu, Brahma, Musukundha Chakkravarthy, and Devas were available as of now. The spot is known as Thiru Vilamal, Thiruvadi kshetram and Siva Pada sthalam.

Significance

When Aarati is given in the main sanctum, we see the jyothy in Siva Lingam and it is like a jyothy swaroopam. Siva lingam is Jyothy swarupam vital component of this temple is Idadhu paada darshanam, which is seeing the left foot of master Shiva. At the point when in Ardhanarishwara structure (half Shiva and staying half Devi), the left 50% of ruler is Devi and thus the survey of left foot is basically the foot of Devi herself. This unique review of the foot is on Thiruvadirai, which is the Nakshatra or the Star on which day Lord Shiva and Devi converged to end up Ardhanarishwara. Concurring English timetable, it falls some place between mid-December to first week of January.

Accessibility

Air

There are no regular flights from other major cities of the country to Thiruvarur. Nearest airport is Civil Airport.
Thiruvarur-102 km away-Civil Airport (TRZ), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu

Rail

Thiruvarur is well connected to other major cities of the country via regular trains.
Railway Station(s): Thiruvarur Junction (TVR)

Road

There are regular buses available to Thiruvarur from other major cities of the country.
Bus Station(s): Thiruvarur

Address

Patanjali Manoharar Temple
Vilamur,
Thiruvarur,
Tamil Nadu.