Thiruparankundram:
After an entry marked by pillars and decorated with colorful animal motifs, on mandapa visits two in a row. The first pillar has engraved several statues of various deities and religious articles shops lined on the sides. At the entrance of the second mandapa, is an elephant that's prodigal blessings.
Then pass through a third mandapa. At the center, we can see, side by side, a huge box of a Nandi rat Ganesh and Murugan to a peacock, all looking toward the cella behind them stands a golden djavastambha.
To access the cella must be beyond the third mandapa mount a series of steps, reaching a level where extensive press and a crowd standing in line to come before the cella where priests officiate throughout the day. We then realized that the divine statues (Murti) were excavated from the rock to very ancient times. It is indeed an ancient shrine of rock Pandya time remaining in a cave, preceded by heavy pillars and pilasters and massive.
By entering, there are three shrines to lean back wall, facing the hypostyle hall, and two lateral shrines. The massive and impressive sculptures of deities are blackened by smoke and shiny oils. In the right is a beautiful Ganesh then, advancing slowly to the left, you pass by Durga and Kartikeya Murugan, object of worship here principal. The back walls, sides of the series, are dug two cellas other side, which are engraved on the right a Shiva Lingam, on the left Mahavishnu whose appearance is similar to but a sign Narasimha idenbtifie formally.
Other statues can still be dénichées in various period rooms Pandya, or later, we discover from third mandapa, right when we look at the cella. You can also head to the left output side of the temple leads to a pool of ablutions. In traveling, it is left on a school of young adolescents Brahmins, clad in yellow, repeating throughout the day of sacred texts in Sanskrit, they learn by heart.
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