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Chidambaram trip - Day 3

On Sunday, the third day of the trip we decided to go to Vaitheeswaran koil and Seergazhi Sattainathar koil, both of which are away from Chidambaram town.

After the complimentary breakfast at the hotel we left to Vaitheeswaran temple first. This is some 25 kms away from Chidambaram but due to bad roads we around an hour to reach. Some 10 kms from Chidambaram was good but beyond that owing to new road under construction it takes long time to navigate through. On reaching Vaitheeswaran temple we saw huge crowd as it was kiruthigai. On entering the temple we enquired for interest in seeing palm leaves to know your astrology. We had to reject them and get through. On the event of Kiruthigai, Lord Murugar along with his consorts was in full alangaram thronged by huge number of devotees. As we get inside, first we worship Goddess Thayyal Nayagi, it was hectic to pass through the crowd and get a glimpse. Walking further we are lead to the shrine of Lord Vaidyanathaswamy. Here again we had to push through the devotees to get a darshan, At that the Saint from Kasi had come on a visit to the temple resulting in crowd push. This is sevvai shetram so we workshipped sevvai and came out to the temple pond and had theertham and prayed to the Vinayakar there. Within 30 to 40 mins we were out of the temple.


From Vaitheeswaran temple we drove to Seerghazhi. At Seerghazhi, we are visit the Sattainathar Temple. This is one off a temple where one can see Lord Shiva in three different forms. One in the form of Lingam, next as Shiva next to Paarvati just like human and third as Bhramapureeswarar standing on a small hillock. First we go to the Bhramapureeswarar shrine at ground level where Lord Brahmapureeswarar is accompanied by Goddess Thirunilainayaki Amman. Next level we few steps above lower level, where we see huge deities of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati next to each other followed by statues of Lord Periyanakar with Goddess Periyanayaki. Thirugnanasambandar is said have cried here as a child and Ambal came down to this very own temple site to give him milk - the gnanapaal. Beyond this we take few more steps up to see Lord Sattainathar. The temple is under renovation so all gopurams are closed and also the stairs we take are under maintenance. The temple houses a huge pond which also has constructions happening all around. With this we wrapped up from Seergazhi and went back to Chidambaram.


In the evening we set out to SamiyaarPettai beach. This is towards Cuddalore and again had to go through bad roads. A huge beach with clean water and eatery shops around. Every different from Marina though similar in terms of sandy beach. We spent some 30 mins here and we back to hotel by 7 PM.


Around 9:30 PM we went to Thillai Natarajar temple to witness the Ardhajama poojai. The deity is taken around the temple in silver palanquin and laid to rest in golden throne.


As we came out we had masala paal at the famous burma stall here for Rs.30, worth it! Beyond this this shop at the big restaurants like saravana bhavan and A2B in the east car street itself.


We this we called it a trip as we head to Chennai next day early morning.

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Location: Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India

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