Vijayamangai Vijayanatheswarar Temple

Vijayamangai Vijayanatheswarar Temple is a Hindu temple located at Tiruvijayamangai in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu, India.[1] The presiding deity is Shiva. He is called as Vijayanatheswarar. His consort is known as Mangalanayaki.

Temple entrance

Significance

It is one of the shrines of the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams - Shiva Sthalams glorified in the early medieval Tevaram poems by Tamil Saivite Nayanars Tirugnanasambandar and Tirunavukkarasar.

Literary mention

Tirugnanasambandar describes the feature of the deity as:[2]

தோடமர் காதினன் துதைந்த நீற்றினன்

ஏடமர் கோதையோ டினித மர்விடம்
காடமர் மாகரி கதறப்போர்த்ததோர்

வேடம துடையணல் விசய மங்கையே.

Tirunavukkarasar describes the feature of the deity as:[3]

வந்து கேண்மின் மயல்தீர் மனிதர்காள்

வெந்த நீற்றன் விசயமங் கைப்பிரான்
சிந்தை யால்நினை வார்களைச் சிக்கெனப்

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References
  1. Sri Vijaya Natheswarar temple, Dinamalar
  2. Tirugnanasambandar Tevaram, III: 17:5
  3. Tirunavukkarasar Tevaram, V: 71:9
  • "Sri Vijaya Natheswarar temple". Dinamalar.
  • "Vijayanathar Temple, Triuvisayamangai". Shiva Temples of Tamilnadu, Paadal Petra Sivasthalangal.

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