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Here is an ancient temple with difference, perching on a much coveted place in
temple history of India. Strangeness and vastness greet at every stage and
transports the visitors to ethereal world, if the uniques galore are narrated
one after another. It claims the country's biggest temple car fitted with
gigantic stone wheels. And its huge dimensions and massive weight require more
than a minimum of 80,000 people to draw it during the Rathotsava festival. And
the temple Pushkarini is so big that it contains a small islet amidst which
stands a temple installed with Naduvanayanar icons, along with Naganathar and
Yogambigai. Boats are available to reach it and the Navagrahas set up there lie
side by side in a square shaped mandap, unlike their instrallion in all temples
surprises the visitors. The presiding deity of this temple is Tyagaraja Swamy
going by the popular name of Tirumulanathar. It is called the prithvisthala of
the panchabhutasthalas of eternal fame. The adage eulogizes that born in this
holy temple town, one attains mukti just as dying in Kasi and seeing Natarajnar
at Chidambaram.
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