Wednesday, 3 August 2011

PILLAYARPATTI

This Pillayarpatti small village derives its name from the image of Lord Ganesh known us Karpaga Vinayagar. The Lord Vinayaka carved on the wall of an ancient rock at Temple. It is one of the oldest Cave Temple(Rock cut) temples of Tamilnadu.
Karpaka Vinayakar is the presiding deity here, and he is portrayed with two arms a trunk curled towards his right in the valampuri mode. This 6 feet  tall mammoth image of Ganesh is a bas relief an excavated cave, off of a hill in the precincts of the temple

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