Vedarajan Temple, Thirunagari – Literary Mention

Vedarajan Temple, Thirunagari – Literary Mention

Vedarajan temple is revered in Nalayira Divya Prabhandam, the 7^th – 9^th century Vaishnava canon, by Kulasekara Azhwar and Thirumangai Azhwar. The temple is classified as a Divyadesam, one of the 108 Vishnu temples that are mentioned in the book. During the 18^th and 19^th centuries, the temple finds mention in several works like 108 Tirupathi Anthathi by Divya Kavi Pillai Perumal Aiyangar. Kulasekara Azhwar has sung a Pasuram and Thirumangai Azhwar has sung forty one pasurams on this Deity. Ramanujar has visited this shrine a number of times as also Manavalamamunigal and both have done Mangalasasanam on this Temple. Unlike the other temples, the twelve azhwar saints referred these two temples as a single shrine in all their 41 poems.