Uraiyur (உரியுர்)
Primary Deity: Panchavarneswara (பன்சவர்னெஸ்வர)
Consorts: Kanthimathi (கன்டிMஅடி)
Travel base, Address references
Located at: Tiruchirappalli
Near:
Travelbase: Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
Shrines in & around
– Amba
– Vinayaka
– Subramanya
– Mahalakshmi
– Ganesha
– Dakshinamurthy
– Vishnu
– Brahma
– Durga
– Utanga Muni
– Nataraja
Related temples
– located in same town is 2 – Uraiyur, Azhagiya Manavaalan
Legends and Notes
– Garuda, Kasyapa Muni and Karkotakan are said to have worshipped here.
– Shiva is said to have manifested himself in five different shades of color to Utanga Munivar (Ratna Lingam in the morning, Spatika Lingam at noon, Gold Lingam in the afternoon, Diamond lingam at night and Chitra lingam later on at midnight)
– Uraiyur is also known as Kozhimanagaram as legend holds that a fowl blessed with divine powers defeated an elephant in an duel
– This legend states that a Chola king saw the five daughters of Nagaraja worshipping a Shivalingam each, on the banks of the Nagatheertham. He married the youngest of these princesses and requested his father in law for the Shivalingam that was held in worship by Nagaraja. Nagaraja handed over a half of the Shivalingam to his daughter, who in turn handed it along with the five Shivalingams worshipped by the siblings; all of these merged into one under a Vilva tree, under which, this temple originated
Other Information
Significance:
This temple is considered to be Siva Sthalam
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