Divya Desam 39 - Sri Annan Perumal Temple Srinivasan BadmavathiDivyadesam - Hindu temple in Karaimedu - Mayiladuthurai, India

Blissful to visit these Divya desams.. please co-ordinate with localities as they have specific timings for these temples and even those timings at times pujrai might not be there.. it's better to have a local guide visiting these Divya desams to make sure we get proper darshan and Archana done

It's in between sirkazhi and thirukadaiyur, very close to highways. After visiting thirukadaiyur we thought of visiting a perumal temple. Luckily we found this 108 Divya Desam temple, such a peaceful and awesome place in the middle of village. No parking charges or crowd. Also they mentioned that this lord perumal is brother of Tirupati Perumal, so the temple is also called as Annan Kovil (Brother's temple). A must visit place for everyone.

This is just at the entrance to the Nangur area from the main road connecting Sirkali. We visited this temple by evening. It gets closed around 8pm so we had time to finish it at the last. Even lights are there and temple is well maintained. It has a big pond infront with many Lotus. Temple area is fully covered with asbestos and hence not able to see it properly. Two small shops are available for buying Puja things. We finished our rituals properly and had a nice time.

Shri Annanperumal Vishnu temple in Thiruvellakulam village, near Sirkali is one of the Divyadesams. Shri Alarmelmangai Thaayaar in seperate sanctum. Birth place of Azhwar Kumudavalli Nachiyar. As per legend Saint Thirumangai Azhwar got blessings of Perumal here and became one of the main Azhwars thereafter. Temple has large tank in front. In the inner sanctum we can have darshan of both Moolavar and Utchavar (Shri Srinivasa Perumal).

Opens at 8.00hrs. One can get a guide in this place to visit all the 12 Divya desams ( 13 Kshetrams ) which will be very convenient as different temples have different timings.

In April 2015 our friend and neighbour who has moved to Annan koil to live in the lap of nature doing organic farming and visiting the temples around drove us to the domain of Tirumangai azhwar. We left Srirangam at 10.00 A.M. and after a short stop at Koiladi we reached Annan koilgardens at 3.00 P.M. We spot the brightly painted Tiruman shanku chakram from a distance itself and as the gate opened we saw the garden beautifully tended by the couple. Flowers and vegetables growing fresh makes one happy. We couldn't but marvel at Perumal's Creation which is so perfect. Thin wiry creepers bear huge pumpkins, the cluster-beans and brinjals and ladyfingers mingled with the roses and jasmines and Tulasi flanked by banana plants bending their heads with the weight of the meroon flowers with small plantains waiting to ripen. Butterflies and bees and birds of various kinds and a stray dog with two puppies wagged their tails vigorously in welcome. After resting and relaxing we proceeded to Annan-koil armed with a torch . The first thing we spied was a beautiful pond with lotuses. It being evening the flowers were shut and Hema told us that this was the pond from which Kumudavalli nachiyar took avatharam. It was with awe that we offered our pranams to the hallowed spot and did prokshanam (sprinkled water) for this StriRatnam (Jewel of a woman)gave us Tirumangai azhwar. Smitten by her beauty Tirumangaimannan a chieftain of the area wanted to marry her. She agreed if he fulfilled two of her conditions: 1)To become a srivaishnava by getting panchasamskaram (samashrayanam) and 2)To feed thousand Srivaishnavas daily for a year. Tirumangaiazhwar fulfilled the conditions even though he became a pauper and resorted to robbing the rich. This kulam or pond has given the name Tiruvellakulam to this place. Vellai in Tamil means white. This kshetram is associated with Swethan (sanskrit word for white), the son of Dundhumaran of suryavamsham who was destined to die at the age of nine. After bathing in the kulam he sat under the bilva tree on its banks and did mrithyunjayamantrajapam. The result was that he was blessed by Perumal and he lived upto a ripe old age. Perumal is Srinivasan, Kannan also known as Annan Perumal and Thayar is Alarmelmangai (Moolavar) and Padmavathi or PoovarTirumagal (Utsavar). After buying flowers and offerings for archanai we entered the temple to have darshan of Lord Srinivasa and Alarmelmangai Thayar. As we made our way home with the torch on (plenty of power-cuts in this area) the moon shone brightly in the sky (it was full-moon night) the tranquillity of the place was apparent and because nature has not been tampered with yet the summer night was cool. Next day we got the sthala puranam and 108 Divyadesa Thayar- Perumal archanai recorded. Madhava Bhattar who is the chief-priest of the temple was kind enough to spend time to share these with us.

One of the 108 Divya desam. If you tell that you have come first time they explain well about the important days of festivals and all about the deities.

Thousands of year's old temple ,navathirupathi in south delta distict ,once upon a time its s richest place in india imagine this all 9 perumal temple in single village and all big temple divya desam also