place : Siruvachur
Goddess : Mathura Kali amman
Goddess : Chelliamman
How to reach?
Siruvachur is situated in Trichy-Chennai highway. Any government or private bus will stop in Siruvachur if requested. Autos are available to go to temple from Highway. Temple is 2-3kms from main road. Shops are open near temple for Archana and for worshipping with flowers and garlands made from lemons and flowers.
note
The temple is open only for two days in a week, Monday and Friday from morning to night, closing for performing Pooja. Temple is open on special days like nine days of Navarathri, full moon day and new moon day.
About the temple
The temple is believed to be at least thousand years old. The goddess here is very powerful. The temple has one shrine for mathurakali amman. The goddess can be worshipped by doing archana, or preparing maa vilakku maavu, or with flower garlands or lemon garlands. The archana plate should have beetel leaves, nuts, lemon and any other items. Incense stick should be lighted outside shrine. Since the crowd is big, Coconut is also broken in equal half outside before offering it to god. It is believed that Chelliamman resides in the hill right beside the temple. There is a mutt right behind the temple. Marriage and any other function hall is available there. Rooms are also available there.
History
Once a very chaste woman named Kannagi lived in the outskirts of Madurai with her husband, Kovalan. She was very chaste in duties and sincerity towards Kovalan. They had little wealth and to make the ends meet, Kannagi suggested to sell the anklet. Kovalan agreed and went to sell the anklet to smith-worker. The smith-worker misinterpreted the anklet to b the stolen anklet of Queen. The king heard about the anklet and beheaded Kovalan without a fair trial. Kannagi on hearing the tragedy, went to King's court. There she questioned king, "which stone is queens anklet contains?". The king answered that "it is made of pearls". Kannangi was angered by this and told the king "The anklets my husband took with him contained maanikkam and its pair is here". Kannagi broke her anklet and Manikkam, a very rare stone, came out of it. Queens pair was bought and broken. One contained pearl and the other contained Maanikkam, proving that Kovalan was killed unfairly. King died on that spot after knowing he had done injustice in this case. Kannagi's sorrow and anger knew no bounds and she cursed there that Madurai should burn. The city started burning at that instant and Kannagi left the place that had inflicted injustice. Kannagi came to Siruvachur. There she saw that Chelliamman was frightened and scared by a Magician, whose intention is to cause havoc. Unable to tolerate the magician, Kannagi pushed the magician in the fire-pit and stomped her leg on him and killed him. Chelliamman and people there rejoiced and from these incidents she is known as Madurakali-amman. Chelliamman gave her place in temple to Madurakali amman and now is in hill near the temple. During the aarati ceremony, the priests worship Madurakali amman and raise the aarati plate signifying aarati to chelliamman from temple. There is a pit in the direct site of goddess signifying the pit where the evil Magician was burnt. Priests tie a dhothi or towel arround the face covering the mouth and hair while performing aarati.
official temple website
Click here to navigate to official website of the temple.
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Goddess : Mathura Kali amman
Goddess : Chelliamman
How to reach?
Siruvachur is situated in Trichy-Chennai highway. Any government or private bus will stop in Siruvachur if requested. Autos are available to go to temple from Highway. Temple is 2-3kms from main road. Shops are open near temple for Archana and for worshipping with flowers and garlands made from lemons and flowers.
note
The temple is open only for two days in a week, Monday and Friday from morning to night, closing for performing Pooja. Temple is open on special days like nine days of Navarathri, full moon day and new moon day.
About the temple
The temple is believed to be at least thousand years old. The goddess here is very powerful. The temple has one shrine for mathurakali amman. The goddess can be worshipped by doing archana, or preparing maa vilakku maavu, or with flower garlands or lemon garlands. The archana plate should have beetel leaves, nuts, lemon and any other items. Incense stick should be lighted outside shrine. Since the crowd is big, Coconut is also broken in equal half outside before offering it to god. It is believed that Chelliamman resides in the hill right beside the temple. There is a mutt right behind the temple. Marriage and any other function hall is available there. Rooms are also available there.
History
Once a very chaste woman named Kannagi lived in the outskirts of Madurai with her husband, Kovalan. She was very chaste in duties and sincerity towards Kovalan. They had little wealth and to make the ends meet, Kannagi suggested to sell the anklet. Kovalan agreed and went to sell the anklet to smith-worker. The smith-worker misinterpreted the anklet to b the stolen anklet of Queen. The king heard about the anklet and beheaded Kovalan without a fair trial. Kannagi on hearing the tragedy, went to King's court. There she questioned king, "which stone is queens anklet contains?". The king answered that "it is made of pearls". Kannangi was angered by this and told the king "The anklets my husband took with him contained maanikkam and its pair is here". Kannagi broke her anklet and Manikkam, a very rare stone, came out of it. Queens pair was bought and broken. One contained pearl and the other contained Maanikkam, proving that Kovalan was killed unfairly. King died on that spot after knowing he had done injustice in this case. Kannagi's sorrow and anger knew no bounds and she cursed there that Madurai should burn. The city started burning at that instant and Kannagi left the place that had inflicted injustice. Kannagi came to Siruvachur. There she saw that Chelliamman was frightened and scared by a Magician, whose intention is to cause havoc. Unable to tolerate the magician, Kannagi pushed the magician in the fire-pit and stomped her leg on him and killed him. Chelliamman and people there rejoiced and from these incidents she is known as Madurakali-amman. Chelliamman gave her place in temple to Madurakali amman and now is in hill near the temple. During the aarati ceremony, the priests worship Madurakali amman and raise the aarati plate signifying aarati to chelliamman from temple. There is a pit in the direct site of goddess signifying the pit where the evil Magician was burnt. Priests tie a dhothi or towel arround the face covering the mouth and hair while performing aarati.
official temple website
Click here to navigate to official website of the temple.
Hope this post was interesting and useful. Please comment and share this post to motivate me to write more articles!!! See you all soon!!!
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