Thursday, October 20, 2005

Koothanur Sarawathi Temple


We (My mom,bro , ganesh and I ) went to this temple on 10/14/2005.
We started from Vaitheeswaran koil at around 12.30 PM and on the way we had our lunch in Mayiladudurai also known as Mayvaram. On the way we visited one of our relative in Peralam. It was really a anubu thollai. He pestered us to stay in his home that night. My bro did not like it and would prefer a hotel. So we kind of convinced him by putting the blame on our astrolger (actually, the astrologer has advised us to visit all these temples).

We started at around 5.15 PM from his home and visited the koothanur Saraswathi temple which is about 15-20 minutes from Peralam.
The temple was good.there were a lot of petty shops which sol pens near the temple. I did not notice the significance then. The priests were preparing for a oorvalam (taking the god aroubd the village during some special occassion). Sarawathi pooja was just 2 days before so the celebrations were still on.

Goddess saraswathi is the Goddess of knowledge. Also they had kep a white board (I did not notice any marker there) fo rthe students to write their name and roll # so that the Goddess blesses them to score high.

It was for my brother the astrologer has advised us to visit this place. The temple was not very big and we just spent some 15-20 minutes there.
Ganesh bought some pens and got it blessed from the Goddess' feet.
I managed to read the 108 namhas which was carved in the temple.

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