Kalabairavar Temple, Adhiyamankottai
Kalabairavar Temple is most famous
temple in Dharmapuri District Surrounding areas including Bangalore and Salem.
In India, there are only two Kalabairavar Temple are available. One of them is
Dharmapuri Kalabairavar Temple. Dharmapuri Kalabairavar temple is most famous
temple among Karnataka particularly Bangalore people and Andhra Pradesh People.
Dharmapuri Kalabairavar temple comes under Tamilnadu Hindu Religion Department.
History
In olden days, Rishis and Munivars
always used to chant the praise of (Moola Mantra) of Kalabairavar and were free
of any fear. According to epigraphic details, the temple was built by the kings
who ruled Krishnagiri.
A huge number of villagers belonging to
more than hundred villages in the region such as Mammampalli, Pachikanapally,
Alapatti, Kallupatti, Nellur, Kollapatti etc. have Kalabairavar as their Family
Deity.
A large number of tourists from Andhra
Pradesh and Karnataka visit the temple to worship Sri Kalabairavar.
Temple's Speciality
There are two Kala Bhairava idols
in the temple. Nandhi (bull vehicle of Lord Shiva) is at the entrance.
Greatness of Temple
Sri Bhairava is the Guru-teacher of
Saturn. Saturn was worshipping Lord Shiva in Kasi (Varanasi) and performed
penance on the Guardian Deity of Kasi Sri Kalabairavar and attained wisdom,
according to scriptures.
Of the 64 significant aspects
attributed to Sri Kalabairavar, eight are considered important. Trident is his
weapon. It is advised that he should be worshipped as Kalabairavar in Kasi and
Swarna Bhairava in Chidambaram in Tamilnadu. Sri Bhairava showed his might by
simply nibbing the head of Lord Brahmma with his nail.
The temple is situated in a pleasant
environment on the banks of Patethalavu Lake between the Anjaneya Hills and
Bhairava Hills. Sri Kala Bhairava, the constant guardian of the devotees graces
them with all peace of mind and total freedom from the fear of enemies.
Special Features
· If we
pray this Bhairava, the bad time will become good time. In this temple, there
is a place for looking bad and good time.
·
His head
will be seen as flames and this temple is painted red.
· He has
four hands. In each of his hand having trident, head, pabangusha, small
membrano phone drum.
· There is
no period of time to worship him. There is 24-hour prayer. Because he is the
only period of time.
·
He
belongs to both vegetarian and Vaishnavism.
·
He wears
the snake as punul and sacred hip thread.
· The
vehicle for the Bhairava is special sacred vehicle and for other temples, there
is a presence of sacred vehicle alone.
· And in
this temple, the vehicles of both nandhi and dog are present but in other
temples only the vehicle of dog is present.
Opening Time
The temple is open from 6.00 a.m. to
11.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.
Prayer Timings
Daily prayer will be held at the time
of raagu. During Sunday, at the time of raagu, 28 types of special prayers and
oblation and Rudra oblation will be held. On that day, deity will be in royal
dressings.
Weekly Oblation will be held during
waxing moon and ashtami. In early morning 6'o clock, Arudra ritual will be
held. Ashta Bhairava ritual, a ritual solace Ganapathy, Lakshmi solace ritual,
all these rituals will be held during 6 pm to 9 pm.
After 9.30, oblation will be held with
64 types of liquids.
At Night 11'o clock, chatru sanmaga
homam and blood ritual will take place. The prayer will take place in the 500
kg of chilly 8 bond. There is no little sense when we put the chillies in to
the homam.
Prayers
Time, Kalpanta, Hostile, Skull, Samkara,
Unmanta, Fighting, and Ukkira are the 8 types of Bhairavas. There are 8
incarnations for each Bhairava. The prayer will be a total of 64 Bhairavas.
Nearly 20,000 people will come to this
temple on Astami and 5,000 people will come on every Sunday.
For full moon day, sorna Krishna Kubera
pooja will take place to solve the financial problems.
Special Prayers
A Special prayer for Ancestral curse,
pitturu curse, a curse, navakiraka dhosa, horoscopes dhosa, will take place in
temple regularly for the devotees.
12 Sunday prayers, after 3 waxing moon
Astami, if he is praying by offering oil lamps; it is generally believed that
anything that he was praying will happen within 3 months.
Contact
Kalabairavar Temple
Adhiyaman Kottai,
Salem Bye - Pass Road,
Dharmapuri - 636705,
Tamilnadu, India.
Executive Officer: 09186951375, 09655651375 & 09842334271
Priest: 09443272066 & 09443272066