India - Day 3 - Chithambaram

After Tiruvenainallur, we went to Chitambaram. This is my most favouruite temple. This is because it is a big, clean and beatiful. The Thillai Natarajer is so cool looking. Fortunately that day Pradosham and there was a beautiful ceremony going on. The unfortunate part was that it was extremely crowded. In the Pancha Pootham ( the five elements ), this temple is the element of space. OOOOOOO!!!!!!!! There was a big Vishnu statue there too. They say when the saivites and the vaishnavites fought, the saivites threw that Vishnu statue into the sea. Later on, the statue is said to be back. In this temple, Seikilar ( the writer of Periapuranam ) launched the Periapuranam. There he told the story of the 63 nayanar saints one bye one. Further more, Manickavasagar dissapeared at the moolastanam at this place. Okay let me tell you the story. Manickavasagar was in the temple gardens when an old man (Lord Siva) comes and tells him to sing Sivapuranam. So, Manickavasagar sings. The old man writes this down. He gives it to Manickavasagar. Manickavasagar leaves it on the steps and dissapears into the moolastanam.