Ekambareswarar Temple Kanchipuram

EKAMBARESWARAR TEMPLE

Ekambareswara Temple is located in Kanchipuram district. It is one of the Panchayat places. This field refers to the land of one of the five famines. The main deity of the Temple is Lord Shiva Ekambareshwara and the Ambikai Kamakshi Amman.

SOIL LINGAM

The Lord Shiva here is called Prithvi Lingam. And this Lord Shiva is made of soil. It is also called Suyambu. So there is no anointing for Lord Shiva,  Alternatively the linguistic form will be anointed. And like other temples, Amman does not have a separate shrine.

MYTHOLOGY

The world was plunged into darknesss as Lord Shiva closed his eyes in the park. Lord Shiva opened his forehead and gave light to the world. With these things, Lord Parvati went to the world and prayed to him, Lord Shiva. Parvati was born as an ordinary woman in Kanchipuram and worshiped under a mango tree on the banks of the Kamba River. to make the world aware of Parvati's penance, Lord Shiva flooted the Kamba River. Parvati hugged her Soil lingam to avoid flooding.

         Lord Shiva looked beneath the mango tree and blessed Parvati and gave her a two step paddy to built the 32 pickets in the name of Parvati Kamakottam.The soil lingam worshipped by parvati is called as Prithvi Lingam.Kamakottam is the Kamakshi Amman Temple.

HISTORY

Pallavar period sculptures and inscriptions show that the first Pallavas built this temple. Later the temple was developed by the Cholas. It is also known as the Appar, Sundarar, Thirunavukarasar.Gnanasambandar. The temple was named in the ancient religious texts as Tirukachchi Aegambam.

          The eastern tower of the temple, the Raja Tower, is 58.5 meters high and nine layers. It was built in 1509 AD by Krishnadevaraya who ruled over Vijayanagara.Krishnadevarayar also built a thousand foot hall in the temple. The temple has a total of five prakaras.

PLACE TREE(SthlaVirutcham): Every temple has a tree called 'PLACE TREE' and thus the temple is worshiped as 'PLACE TREE' which is 3500 years old.The age of the Mango tree, which is revered as the Sthala virutcham, is 5000 years old. It is said that the Umayyal performed penance under this mango tree and the fruit of this tree is of four kinds.There are four branches of this mango tree. The speciality is that the four varities of mangoes grow in each of the four branches of the tree. These four branches refer to the four Vedas - the Rig, the Yajur, the Sama and the Atharvana.

IMPORTANT FESTIVALS

• Aani Thirumanjanam
• Aadi Krithigai
• Navaratri
• Panguni Uthiram
• Chitra Pournami
• Vaikasi Visakam

OPEN IN ALL DAYS OF THE WEEK

FROM 7:00am to 12:oopm

             4:00pm to 8:00pm

LOCATION - https://goo.gl/maps/ekmSx24tk4CSgVru7