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Recently I had a great opportinity to arrange a therrukkoothu at Kalpakkam Township through NESCO. My friend Mr.Vezhavendhan, Cultural Secretary of Nesco approched me for a different programme. I suggested Purisai Kannappa Sambantha Thambiram team to perform Therukoothu Programme. He accepted and we approched them. Finally on 06 August 2009 they performed "Thugil Vasthirabaranam" for two hours. It was amazing. I took nearly 70 photographs from Makeup to Vanakkam. Here some of the photos for your visual.

சொந்த ஊர்
ரயில் நகர்கிறது
கூடவே என் மனசும்

நம்பிக்கை இழக்காமல்
பரண் மேல் கிடக்கிறது
கில்லி தாண்டு

பழைய சாப்பாடு
அனைவர் முகத்திலும் மகிழ்ச்சி
கூட்டாஞ்சோறு

எவ்வளவு முயன்றும்
சந்திக்க முடியவில்லை
சாஃப்ட்வேர் அப்பா

கடற்கரை வீடு
எட்டி எட்டி பார்க்கின்றன
சின்னஞ்சிறு நண்டுகள்

அப்பாவின் உடல்
அழுதபடி அமர்ந்திருக்கிறது
அடித்து வளர்த்த நாய்

வந்த தூக்கத்தைத்
துரத்திக் கொண்டிருக்கிறான்
வானில் முழுநிலா

பள்ளியின் முன்னே
கை தட்டும் பொம்மை
மிட்டாய் கடிகாரம்


ஆர். வி. பதி

My family and my dear friend Mr.Bhasker family planned to visit porkovil and some other important places in and around Vellore. We started our trip on 24th December 2007 by hiring a sumo vehicle. We alighted at Walajah and started our trip. First We visited Danvantri Temple near Walajah which is located just 3 kms. From here. The Danvantri temple in Walajapet, in Vellore district, is the only temple dedicated to the God of Medicine. We worshipped Lord Danvantri it is said the first doctor in the world.

From there we started to Ponnai. Ponnai is located in the border of Andhra Pradesh. Buses also available from Walajah. The temple is located just 2 kms. From ponnai bus stand. In ponnai temple the main deity is lord vinayaga. In the moolasthanam there are two types of vijayaga. One is man made and another one is suyambu. Suyambu means naturally grown in the shape of god. The speciality of ponnai is the planet gods are blessing us alongwith their wife. Separate small temple are made for each planet god. It is a different experience. Dhosams are relieved here.
After completing the ponnai visit we went to Mounaguru ashram in Tangaal village. Here lord venkateswara is made up of panjaloga metal. Now we started from here to vallimalai. Vallimalai is located near Vellore, 16 km north of the Shivastalam Tiruvalam, on the Chennai Bangalore highway. This rock cut hill temple is built on top of a small hill accessed. The steps are very big and one could easily reach the temple. Much of the temple is within a cave. The construction in this temple is attributed to the Pallava rulers and to the Madurai Nayak rulers. Here a Jain cave is also situated. And it is preserved by the ASI.


We started to Tiruvalam in Katpadi Taluk. It is located on the way to vellore from vallimalai. The temple lies on the western bank of ponnai river. The deity is said to have been worshipped by the nine planets. It was called Theekkali Vallam, which later came to be known as Tiruvalam. This temple was built by Eerayiravan Pallavarayan, an employee of King Rajendra Chozhan (1050-62 A.D.). The Nandi in this temple is very amazing. Normally nandi devar is in the direction of west. But in this temple it turned to east. The nandi is very big one.

Straight away we went to Bhaskers relatives house and had a very good lunch and we took rest for an hour.

At 2.45 pm we all started to porkovil. We reached porkovil at 3.30 pm. This temple is located just 10 kms. From Vellore. We handed over our mobile and other belongings to the taxi driver because in this temple personal belongings are not permitted. Temple administration maintaining a clock room. But due to over crowd this process will take an hour. To save the time we planned like this.

Many people are coming to visit this temple. We have waited in a hall like tirupathi balaji temple. After an hour we are allowed to enter the golden temple. Security guards are doing through scanning. It looks like a tourist place. After 30 minutes walk we can reach the main temple. The deity is Narayani Amman. The golden temple is really amazing. After the dharshan is over we started to reach main entrance.

At about 5.30 pm we came out and started to Fort temple. Jalagandeswarar is the main deity of this temple. This temple is very ancient one and has historical back ground. After this we reached new bus stand at Katpadi and through a bus we went to poonamallee at about 9.00 pm.

Recently we planned one-day trip to Pondicherry. On 6th April 2007 we started from KALPAKKAM to visit Aurobindo Ashram. We reached at about 07.45 am to Aurobindo Ashram. We were told that the ashram will be opened only at 8.00 am. So we visited Manakkula Vinayagar Temple very near to Ashram. We worshipped Lord Vinayaga and had a very nice prasadam Venpongal. We started from the temple and reached Ashram at about 8.30 am. We sat in the ashram in front of the Samadhi of Sri Aurobindo and mother. After that we visited the book shop in the ashram campus. I purchased a book written by Sri Aurobindo. The title is Enadhu Siraivasam. He described his prison experience in Alipur during 1908 and 1909.

After that we started to visit ABISHEKAPAKKAM. It is located near Thavalakuppam. Thavalakuppam is located in the Cuddalore road. We reached Ahishekapakkam and worshipped Lord Lakshminarashima and started to reach POOVARASANKUPPAM. In Poovarasankuppam an excellent perumal temple is there. We worshipped Lord Lakshminarashima. This temple is located near Siruvandadhu which is popular for silk sarees. After completing worship we started from Poovarasankuppam to Parikkal. We reached PANRUTTI and from there we went to Thozhudoor. In this higyway a gigantic Anjaneyar Statue is established. From this area we have traveled nearly 5 kms. and reached PARIKKAL. In parikkal also Lord Lakshminarashima is blessing the devotees. The worship timing is morning 06.00 am to 01.00 pm. After completing the worship we started our journey and reached VILLUPURAM. We had our Lunch. At about 2.30 pm we started our travel and reached Pondicherry. In between Pondicherry and Tindivanam a new temple is establied in PANCHAVADI. A 36 feet gigantic Anjaneya is the main deity of that temple. From panchvadi to Pondycherry route a new amman temple is there. The main deity is PRITHIYANGARA. The height of the statue is 72 feet. At about 4.00 pm we reached Auroville and visited Matrimandir. Finally at about 4.45 pm we had a tea at Auroville and started our journey. We reached kalpakkam at about 06.15 pm.

The one day trip was very excellent. We traveled around 350 kms. in one day.

PATHI.R.V.

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