Oragadam Kodhanda Ramar Temple

Before visiting the Oragadam Sivan Temple, we visited this small and beautiful Kodhanda Ramar Temple.

This ancient temple (Chola Regime) is well maintained by Ahibila Mutt.

Please refer to Oragadam Sivan Temple post for more details on Oragadam. This trip, I made way back in 2008, I am just posting it now, along with Thirukkazhukundram, near which Oragadam is situated.

When we went, the assistant was cooking Prasadam (food offered to God)  in the kitchen.He came out to tell us that the Priest would come in about half an hour and asked us to wait. It suited me and I freaked around the temple with my digicam..My wife found a nice place to sit and wait for our (me and Priest..!) return ..!

Come along with me to just go round the temple...! Don't you worry, the walk will only be short as this site is not huge..!

The lush green lawn and the small garden ...!

The priest has now come..!

We went inside and had dharshan of the beautiful Lord Rama. The priest insisted on us waiting for some more time and have the Prasadham that was being cooked. The flavour of the cooking Prasadham was too tempting for me to refuse ..In the meanwhile, the priest invited us to his nearby house, a traditional one, with the tiles that are not seen these days.. ! He permitted me a few snaps ..! The house was in the street with the backdrop of a beautiful hill..!

We spent some time in the house before we returned to the temple and participated in the Pooja and part took some delicious Prasadham .

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Videos

After this we proceeded to the Sivan Temple...Vaadaamalleeswarar Temple on a small Hillock...of which I wrote already. Click here to get to it.

Oragadam Sivan Temple

Oragadam is on the 7th Km on Chengalpattu Thirukkazhukundram Road. Chengalpattu is about 30km from Tambaram Chennai.

I visited this place in Sep 2008. I just got reminded of it when I visited Thirukkazhukundram and thought a post along with it would help anybody visiting Thirukkazhukundram to see if Oragadam can be combined with it too.

Many do not know that there are a couple of beautiful temples in this small Village. There is a Kothanda Ramar temple that I will write about in the next post. There is a Sivan Temple known as Vada Malleeswarar Temple and this post is about it.

This small Sivan temple is built on a small hillock and is located amidst beautiful setting- a huge Banyan tree at the base and a big tank opposite to this banyan tree adds to the serenity. No one could give the history of this temple excepting that this temple is of recent origin.. I guess the main deity should be of ancient origin..!

Thirukkazhukundram Hill temple is visible from the road at the entrance of this village..!

The village is picturesque and full of greenery..!

Don't miss the video 3 minute video at the end..!

This temple has Sivan-Vadamalleeswarar Sannidhi and Amrudhavalleeswari sannidhi adjacent to each other.

There is a huge Sivan Statue in sitting posture on a small rock seat and a small Sannidhi for Tamil poet saints Thirunavukkarasar,Sundarar,Thirugnana Sambandhar and Manicka vachakar next to it.

The priest visits this temple early in the morning and performs pooja and again visits it in the evening. It was well past his time when we visited the temple. We were all alone here and enjoyed the serenity and natural setting of this temple..!

Lord Siva-The annihilator

Vadamalleeswarar Sannidhi

Amrudhavalleeswari

There are small statues for other deities on the wall of the main Sannidhi..

Vinayaga-The Primal God

Dhakshinamurthy-The Lord of Knowledge

Maha Vishnu-The Sustainer

Brahma-The creator

The Gopuram of the Ramar Temple as seen from top of the Hill...!

On our return journey, we noticed a few children having fun at a huge well in midst of the paddy fields. We stopped by and walked straight towards the Well..! I clicked a few snaps...!

I asked these kids to jump in unison and was able to catch them before they parted their hold after a couple of trials..!

Don't miss further photos and a small video clip of the jumping into the well...!

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Video

 I just stopped at the entrance of the village and shot a short video of 360 degree view that is at the beginning of this clip.

Well Jumping