Thiruchenture

 Lord Muruga,s incarnation

The Hindu religion has a vast canon of Puranas, Vedas,and Agamas including Upanishads The gods and demons were rivals and each had resort to the perceptive powers of the planets. Thus Jupiter (Brahaspathy) and Venus (Sukra) fought by taking sides with these rivals,The Jupiter is taken gods guru and the Venus is demons guru. This two of the celestial bodies , (these two planets) influenced the minds and bodies of these two races.

There were three demon brothers... called Soorapadman, Tharakasuran, and Simhasuran...these three were sage Kashyapa's sons. Their mother was called Maya was a Asura she lovingly had won the heart of Kashyapa and begot these sons through him. 'When Kashyapa preferred to teach them the principles of 'dharma, ahimsa and all good ethics... But Maya the sages wife taught them and incited hymn to conquer the gods all positions, so as the power of hymns they brought up as a demonic nature. In due courses they won devas and they became the ruler of the all devalogam and all devas imprisoned.

All devas duties regulated by them each one should obey them. they could not bare the trouble from them so Lord Indira went to Vishnu for their rescue but Vishnu could do nothing hence Vishnu told Indira to go and appeal to Lord Siva.. accordingly Indira went to Kailash accompanied with Lord Vishnu and Indira appealed to Lord Siva for their rescue from the demons.....Lord Siva told to Indira that when Siva was given the boon to the demons that any power of the world would not kill them except his own power', so Lord Siva entered yogic trance (Samadhi) and opened his third eye and out of it came a six rays of luminously bright light and received them by Agni(the fire god) and diverted into a Marshy lake....called "Saravana the "forest of reeds, where each ray turned out to be a child. Hence we hear of the six syllables "Sa-ra-va-na--bha-va-" born in the forest of reeds. These six children brought up and taken care by six maidens called "Karthikai Pengal"(name of the maiden) later goddess Parvathi embarrassed and gathered them as one ,,,, so the six children became as one body with six heads henceforth he is called "Shanmuga".(six faces)

At last the time came to destroy the demon brothers and rescue the gods....Lord Siva said to muruga to go to soorapadman's place and put down the demon brothers. Hearing this devi Parvathi gave to subramanya the power full spear(Vel) and said that it could track the enemy wherever they are hidden kill them and return back to him. Lord Siva also created a Gana named "Verabagu" the specified character and his brothers for accompany to Muruga and blessed them and sent them off to fight with the enemies demon brothers.

After reaching the war field Lord muruga sent Veerabagu as a messenger to the demon soorapadman......perhapes he might surender to him or meet Lord muruga in the war field. The bad nature of the demon arrogantly did not agree to leave the gods and to surrender to the Lord..... Muruga heard Veerabagu and as his advice first he destroyed the mountain crowncha which was the place Tharagasura ( soorapadman's brother)lived...as soon as soorapadman heard the news of the destruction of his brother by Lord Muruga... got very angry and sent all his armies headed by his brother, son, and relatives one by one but all were defeated by Lord Muruga... at last Soorapadman entered to war field to fight with Lord but he could not withstand... but he hid himself finally on sixth day Lord muruga prayed his mother Parvathi and hurled his spear on demon Soorapadman was caught and he surredred to Lord Muruga and begged for divine mercy due to Lord's mercy he became as a mango tree... the spear pierced the tree only to split into two parts he transformed one part as a peacock another half became as a rooster the peacock became as his mount the rooster symbol of his flag.

This is the reason why all Muruga's temple especially in Theruchendure celebrating the festival of Shasti is the popular one.

Tiruchendur Murugan Temple The famous seashore temple of Lord Subramanya is situated in Thoothukudi (Tuticorin) District of Tamil Nadu. Tiruchendur temple is believed to be a commemoration of Lord muruga's victory over Surapadman
Nali Kinaru (the small well) Any visit to the temple will not be complete without having bath from Nazhi Kinaru. The Nazhi Kinaru is a rare natural phenomenon where there is a 14 sq.ft well and inside this well is a small 1 sq.ft well. water in the small well is clear and sweet-tasting. According to the legend Lord Shanmukha's troops were thirsty and Shanmukha planted his spear or Vel at this spot and gushed fresh water from the salty water well.

History of Tiruchendur The magnificent temple over the course of nearly 1,000 years has grown from its original modest structure through many additions made by Pandya and Chera kings, and various supporters .

'Tiruchendur' means a sacred and prosperous town of victory. The temple tower is on the West instead of the East as is traditional due to the sea. The massive structure is nine storied.. high and stands at 137 feet. The tower was constructed roughly 300 years ago. The sculptures on the tower chronicles interesting events. For instance, there are scenes from the life of Manikkavachakar in the ninth story, a huge bell was fixed by one Mr. Eden, probably the Collector of Tirunelveli from 1832 to 1839. The ringing of the bell indicated the hours of the day

In the 17th century AD, Tiruchendur temple was occupied by the Dutch for few years and they even took off some of the idols from the temple. Legend has it that the Arumuga Peruman idol was carried away in their ship. There was a sudden storm and the Dutch grew afraid and threw the idol into the sea. Vadamalaiyappa Pillai, an ardent devotee of Lord Muruga saw a vision of the idol's position in his dream. Immediately, he and several other devotees rushed to the spot where as exactly who saw in the dream a lemon was floating and eagle was flying over the spot. They dived into the sea and recovered the statue.

The temple was originally constructed on the sandstone reefs of the beach, but due to corrosion by the sea the structure forcibly into bad condition.. In early 1900s a monk Names Mouna Swami took up the renovation work. This was followed by others over a course of 72 years and the three corridors were constructed a new in black granite stone.

SANCTUM SANCTORUM : The main deity at Tiruchendur has four arms holding a rudhraksha malai and he has no spear in his hand, as he is known to be worshiping Siva Lingam. The pandiya kings ruled Madurai endowed lot of wealth to this temple construction. The dynasty that served includes Ugira Pandiyan, Marravarman and Vikrama Pandian. The heirs of Veerapandiya Kattobomman worshiped at the Tiruchendur Shanmugar swamy sannithi, the sanctum that is still available as evidence.

The sthala vriksham(the temple tree)is nellimaram (gooseburry tree) The holy water saravana theertham (Nali ginaru)

 LOCATION.

Near Tirunelveli in Tamilnadu
in South India Tiruchendur
Murugan temple is located
along the seashore
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contact Tamil Nadu tourisom
Madurai 

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