Srinivasa Perumal Temple, located at Perungulam, dedicated to Lord Vishnu known as Venkatavanan and Srinivasa, represents the Navagraha planet Shani (Saturn)?
Srinivasa Perumal Temple, Tirukulandhai Did you know that the Srinivasa Perumal Temple, located at Perungulam, dedicated to Lord Vishnu known as Venkatavanan and Srinivasa, represents the Navagraha planet Shani (Saturn)? The Srinivasa Perumal Temple, named Tirukulandhai, and also known as Sri Mayakoothar Temple at Perungulam town near Thutakudi in Tamil Nadu is one of the 108 Divya Deshams (Holy places of temples) reverred by the 12 Alvar saints of South India who composed 4,000 hymns or pasurmas and sang them in these temples as Mangalasashanams as part of the Bhakthi Movement that they initiated in the country during the period from 7th to 9th centuries; these 4,000 hymns in Tamil language are compiled in canonical Text called Nalayara Divya Prabhandam, most holy to the Sri Vaishnavites.This temple in particular, along with the other eight Nava Tirupathis also known as Navagraha temples (temples representing nine Zodiacal planets), is credited to the perio...
