Friday, April 28, 2017

Vanamamalai Perumal Temple, Nanguneri – Religious Importance

Vanamamalai Perumal Temple, Nanguneri – Religious Importance
The temple is considered one of the eight Swayambu Kshetras of Vishnu where presiding deity is believed to have manifested on its own. Seven other temples in the line are Srirangam Ranganathaswamy templeBhu Varaha Swamy temple, and Tirumala Venkateswara Temple in South India and SaligramaNaimisaranyaPushkar and Badrinath Temple in North India. The temple is revered in Nalayira Divya Prabhandham, the 7th–9th century Vaishnava canon, by Nammazhwar in ten hymns. The temple is classified as a Divyadesam, one of the 108 Vishnu temples that are mentioned in the book. As per the accounts of the Jeeyar, the head of the Vanamamalai Mutt, Janakapuri in Nepal, where Rama (an avatar of Vishnu) got married to Sita also has a place called Nanguneri, similar to the Vanamamalai temple.