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Subramaniaswamy Temple - Thiruthani

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Over the weekend as the rains gave a break to Chennai we took off to Thriruthani at 7 am in the morning.

Had a quick breakfast at Motel highway, Poonamalee and took the opposite highway that goes through Thirumazhisai and Thiruvallur to reached Thiruthani by 9 am.

The lower parking area was full. We took the higher one, near to the temple and saw the free darshan queue to be quite packed. So we took the special entrance ticket for Rs.100 and joined a shorter queue.

In the inner sanctum we worship Lord Subramaniyar along with Valli and Deivanai in separate sanctums on either side. The Lord was in golden kappu providing his blessings. Just as you step out, there is the Urchavar along with Goddess Valli and Deivanai.

As we move away from the Urchavar, we have the Pillaiyar's sanctum. Everywhere we are provided with prasadma's in paper packets - thirunoor and kunkumam.

Within 20 mins we are out of the temple. The premises are well maintained. One doesn't get to go around the whole temple as there are restrictions due to covid.

With a pleased darshan of Murugar and having visited another Arupadai veedi temple we started our journey back home.

Vetrivel Muruganukku Arogara!

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