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Muktinath, Saligramam is the only Divya Desam in Nepal. Tamil Nadu is home to the most number of Divya Desams with 25 of them being located in the Chennai Metropolitan Area. The Divya Desams are revered by the 12 Alvars in the Naalayira Divya Prabandham, a collection of 4,000 Tamil verses. The Divya Desams follow either Tenkalai or Vadakalai ...
The eleven temples are part of the 108 Divya Desams of the Hindu god Vishnu. The temples at Nangur are believed to have been sanctified by Tirumangai Alvar , one of the 12 Alvars . [ 1 ] The oldest of them have been dated to the reign of the Medieval Chola king Parantaka I .
The Divya Desams by comparison are the 108 Vishnu temples glorified in the poems of the contemporary Vaishnava Alvars of Tamil Nadu, ... Map of padal petra stalam;
It is one of the 108 Divya Desams [19] and also one of the Pancharanga Kshetrams. [4] The main deity in the sanctum is Lord Ranganatha, in a reclining pose and considered adi, meaning fore runner, to the Sri Ranganatha Swamy Temple at Srirangam. The temple tower is in the shape of Indira's Vimana (aircraft).
It is an ancient temple and one of the 108 Divya Desams, the holy abodes of Vishnu. It is located in a part of Kanchipuram called the Vishnu Kanchi , where various Vishnu temples are situated. Varadharaja Perumal Temple is a huge one on a 23-acre (93,000 m 2 ) complex and shows the architectural skills of ancient vishvakarma sthapathis in ...
See Divya Desams. Pages in category "Divya Desams" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Thirukkadigai or Sholingapuram in Sholinghur, a village in Ranipet district of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu.Constructed in the Dravidian style of architecture, the temple is glorified in the Naalayira Divya Prabandham, the early medieval Tamil canon of the Alvar saints from the 6th–9th centuries CE.
The temple is given a status of one of the 108 Divya Desams of Hinduism (and the only Divya Desam located outside India) as well as one of the eight most sacred shrines, known as Svayam Vyakta Ksetras, of Vaishnavism. [4] It is also one of the 51 Shakta pithas, associated with the head of goddess Sati.