SRIRAMA'S TEMPLE - TRIPRAYAR

Then his search for other suitable places ended with selection of Triprayar for Srirama, Moozhikulam for Lakshmana and Payemmal for Satrughna. His cup of joy spilled at those four places and they later became famous temples of eternal religious importance.

The installation of Rama's image at Tripayar has an awe-some background and it heightens the glory of the Lord to unprecedented level, and endowed the idol and temple with heavenly sanctity. During his consultation with the learned agama pundits for the installation of Rama's statue, a mystery surfaced all on a sudden-an audible but invisible voice directed Kaimal and the men in the assembly deliberating over the place, that they had to install it at the exact spot below a peacock seen flying just at the auspicious moment fixed. 

Considering the injunction as heaven-sent, preparations for pratishta went on war-footing, and they all assembled on the Subhaghatika looking up for the peacock to appear. But it did not appear. As the sands were running out, the anxiety-of the people went up skyward, but the sky a fill its changing patterns, perhaps, did not offer any sure clue. Just then there appeared a devotee holding a bunch of peacock feathers in his hands. 

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