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Velliangiri Trip on 13th April 2012

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We planned velliangiri for a long time but the lord Shiva wishes to come on this day. We started from the office. We booked one Toyota van to accommodate 7 persons. On the day few persons not come as usual giving some reasons. We( Ramani, Saravanan, kalanidhi,Balaji, & myself) reached Velliangiri at 8AM. There is no hotel , Toilet & bath facilities. So we came back and had the bath in the kalvai near shiva temple ashram con structed by jaggi vasudev. we had a darshan of shiva linga it is very nice. Filled the stomach with pongal vadai in the ashram hotel. We came back to velliangiri purchased the sticks for all. Then stated walking at 11am. We have to cross approximately 2000 steep steps. Finishing this we lost all our energy. We emptied our water bottles. There is vellai vinayagar temple. The first mountains is end here. Our clock showed the time 1:00pm. We have to walk in vazhukkuparai. Then first sunnai to be crossed. We refilled all our water bottles and had taken the...

Padal Petra Shiva temples near chennai - 24th March 2012

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We (Panchapi Chittappa, Jaya chiti, Vanchiamma, Vanchi, Vidya, Akshaya, Gayathri, Bhavani, Srinath, Srinidhi & myself) went to the below temples. We hired a toyoto cab for us. It came in the morning 6.00 AM. We finished all the temples & back to home at 2.00 pm. The cab cost perkm 8.50 /- total cost for the trip Rs 2500/- Pushpa Kujambal Udanurai Singeeswarar Temple at Mappedu Beautiful temple. From the road we are at the backside of the temple. The car can go in between temple wall & temple kulam to reach the main entrance. In this temple anjaneya is playing Veena. It is very nice. Thripurandhakeshwarar Shiva temple at Thiruvirkolam (Coovum) One of the padal petra sthalams.Moolavar is theenda thirumeni. So the linga is not touched by the archakar. Urchavar shiva is like Rama holding bow & arrow. In this temple you can see the ambal sannithi first.then shiva sannthi. In the wall how many acres land belongs to temple and the details...