Thiruchirapalli 4 - Thiruvanaikovil

On the second after reaching back to hotel from our evening temple visits we parked our car in the hotel, freshened up and walked to Thiruvanaikaval - Jambukeswarar Agilandeeswari temple. Within 5 mins walk from our hotel of stay we reached the temple gopuram. As the outer gopuram and its corridor are open to public - vehicles were trying to squeeze in through making it difficult to walk in through. After some struggle to reach next level gopuram to enter the temple. Its a huge temple. The walls around the temple are like that of a fort.

As one of the 5 elements temple - this stands for water. The Lord Jambukeswarar sits on water in his sanctum. We are let, 5-6 persons at a time to get the darshan of the Lord in the inner sanctum. We had to take Rs.50 per head special entrance ticket as the free darshan queue was quiet lengthy owing to Friday. His consort Goddess Agilandeeswari has a separate shrine next doors. We had come out of Lord Jambukeswarar premises to enter the Goddess Agilandeeswari's abode. The Goddess was kind enough to give us her darshan in Kumkumakappu.

Has it had already gone dark we had to go around the temple corridors with the lights provided around the temple. There is a pond inside the temple called Jambu theertham and we also saw a Theppakulam of this temple 2 kms away from temple across the main road. Lord Ganesha and Lord Murugar are seen along with their parents in this temple. The temple has a ther (car). The streets adjoining the temple are vast and wide. The ancientness of the temple can be felt at each step in the temple.

Walking away from the temple we had dinner in one of the mess in the street leading to the temple entrance. We had sumptuous dosa, idly and rava dosa for a very nominal rate and retied to our hotel for a much needed slumber.

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