Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Sathuragiri trip - 12-05-11

We planned to have a saturagiri trip for nearly 2 years. But lord Shiva given the permission for our trip only on 12-05-2011. It was a Friday evening we started from our office at 6.00pm.our troup people names Gurumoorthy, Siva, Saravanan, Prabhakar,Ramesh,Murthy, Saravanan, Thiyagarajan,Durai, Balaji,and Kalanidhi.We booked a tourister van from avadi. We had a dinner at Tindivanam, and went to Srivilliputhur via trichy, Madurai.We refreshed ourselves in Srivilliputhur, Went to thaanipaarai via Krishnan koil.
This is the saturagiri hill bottom. Most of the people will walk from here.
We started to walk in the forest area. (8.00am). after few yards we had the bath in the small water falls flows from the saturagir hill.(8.20am)
Then we started the walk. A small pillayar temple was there it is called ashirvatha pillayar temple. Near by Rajarajeswari temple & Vana pechiamman temples are located.
We had a darshan of all the three temples. The path was very rough
The path was muddy and loose soil in some place. In some place it was rocky. Only in few places we have to walk in narrow muddy path.
First we come across vazuku parai. The rock is like a slope so it is got the name. (9.00am).After few meters we crossed the water (oddai) path, holding the chain we have to move so the place is called sankali parai.( 9.15am). Then we reached a dense forest it is called atri maharishi vanan (9.30). Then we reached the kona thalai vasal
The path is very narrow and rocky (9.45). Then we reached kaaram pasu thadam. It is believed that kamadenu’s foot mark.(9.55). Then we reached korakar kugai (10.20). This is situated in the river. So we have to walk few steps down from our path. It is not in the main route. We had a good darshan of Shiva & Korakkar. The lord Shiva was wearing a beautiful rose turban. korakar eyes and beard are very beautiful. Suddenly one old lady came here given the aarthi and prasadam to the shiva & korakar. While doing the aarthi She put the conch (shanku) and make sound the place is vibrated in the sound. Then the lady priest gave the prasadam to all of us. We are all satisfied and thinking of lord’s mercy.
From here we have to walks for bohar kugai But due to the tough path, we cancelled our plan and walk back to the main route.
We had a darshan of irratai lingam (10.50).
we crossed the naaval ootru (11.10) we filled our water bottles here.
we reached vana duragai (11.40)
we reached karuppa swami temple (12.10)
we reached Sundara Mahalingam (12.30)
we reached Santhana Mahalingam (1.10)
here we seen a small kugai for satanathar. Then akash ganga river. We had a good free food here and walk towards thaaniparai and reached at evening 5.30pm.
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We Hired a Mahindra Tourister 16 seater cost 10/- Per KM total km we traveled 1300x11=13000, 350 battaper day. The trip cost us 18000/- Rupees.