TIRUVANGAD PERUMAL TEMPLE

Taking pity he advised them to perform penance in Siva temples. Their penance and penitence were rewarded with boons by Lord Siva. So they decided to build temples at the places where they were liberated-the place where Neela did penance went by the name of Neeleswaram and that of Sweta's penance called Swetaswaram. Sweta built two temples-one for Lord Siva and the other for Vishnu, his istadaivam, now called Rama temple. 

Here in the same campus, he built another shrine for Lord Siva just to appease the fierceness of Lord Siva he installed first. Hence there are three temples lying side by side within one and the same vast prakara. The Siva shrines-facing each other are lying on the north side of the temple - one is known as Vadakkedam and the other Kizhkedam. There is another version attributing Neela's building of a Siva temple at Tiruvanagad, in addition to the one he built at Neeleswaram. Thus Tiruvangad became a centre for the worship of Siva and Vishnu.     

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