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CHIDAMBARAM |
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Being pleased with
his penance, Siva appeared and promised him the dance at Tillai. Accordingly, Adisesha was
born as a human being, as Patanjali, and went to the forest of Tillai. In this forest,
Vyaghrapada also joined him. Each constructed his own hermitage, Patanjali at
Ananteeswaram and Vyaghrapada at Tirupapuleeswaram in Chidambaram. They started
worshipping Siva in the form of the Swayambhulinga in Tillai forest.
Vyaghrapada was the son of Madhyandina Rishi living on the banks of the Ganga. He came to
the South under the directions of
his father and started praying to the Swayambhulinga under a banyan tree near a tank in
the Tillai forest. He used to collect flowers for puja and, to help him to do so, he
prayed for the boon of tiger's feet and claws So that he could easily climb up the trees
and plucks plenty of flowers. He also prayed for the eyes of bees, so that he could
collect the flowers before any bee could taste the honey in them. |
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