When people speak about INDIAN TEMPLES, Temples of Tamil Nadu form an important part.
Tamil Nadu known as Land of Temples is a home to many ancient and beautiful temples.
If you enter by any way into TN, there will always be a temple to welcome you.
Each village/city/town is built around a TEMPLE in Tamil Nadu and TN has no less number of facts and mysteries.
Some of the mysterious cum scientific facts of such Temples are listed below.( the answer is little big)
1.Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple
This famous temple of TN was nominated for the 7 wonders of the world with 33000 sculptures in this Temple,its built in the angle of 23 and a half degrees coinciding with the axis of earth that means all temples are built without an angle with respect to rising and setting but this temple is built very straight to north and south
Its still unknown how come the ancient kings built it so perfectly .
one more mysterious fact is that no fishes live in the golden lotus pond of this Temple though the Goddess here is known as MEENAKSHI OR GODDESS WHO HAS EYES THAT OF FISHES, still how much ever you leave a fish inside this pond, it dies off soon.
One more fact is this temple has the highest number of 14 Gopurams and no other temple in India as such number of very high and 14 Gopurams .
2.Thiruvannamalai Arunachaleshwarar Temple.
This beautiful ancient 25 acre Temple for Lord Shiva has a story that is as old as creation of universe.
Normally Tamil Nadu follows Agama Shastras ( a combination of the Vedic Hinduism and Dravidian Hinduism) and in Agama temples, there is a concept of Veedhi Ula( procession) wherein GOD made of Pancha Loham is taken outside once in a year or for a period of 10 days in a year and that time the god is taken out only by the main entrance way.
But in this temple, the GOD comes out by the adjacent way next to MAIN GOPURAM and its the only temple that follows this way and the reason is unknown.
3. Thirukovillur Vishnu Temple
Normally in all the temples of India, Lord Vishnu have his CONCH OR SHANGU in his left hand and Chakra in his right hand but this temple is special.
Here Vishnu have his conch in right hand and chakra in his left hand with his right feet raised above.
4.Chidambaram Natarajar Temple.
In India, every God has his own temple and even if two main gods have a temple, you should worship them in different sanctoms but in Chidambaram Temple, you can worship GOVINDARAJA PERUMAL and LORD NATARAJA by standing at one point which is very rare and you can’t witness such type of Darshan in any other temple of world.
In all the temples, only the Uthsava Murthy comes out for procession but in this temple Moolavar or the main God(the God inside the sanctorium) comes on Veedhi ula( procession).
This is the ONLY TEMPLE in India which celebrates both Thiruvadhirai festival for Lord Shiva( day on which universe was created) and Vaikunta ekadashi for Vishnu ( day on which the doors of Vaikuntam opens where according to beleif whoever dies on this day can get an oppurtunity of going to heaven irrespective of his karmas)
5.Thirunageshwaram Uppiliappan Temple
This temple in Kumbakonam,known as the temple town of Tamil Nadu, is very special temple for Hindus.
The reason is due to the Prasadam given in this temple.
Actually till now salt has never been added into any of the PRASADAMS done in this temple but still after pooja is done, the naivedhyam offered to GOD tastes very good as if salt is added in it but the makers don’t add even a pinch of salt into it.
6.Rameshwaram Ramanathaswamy Temple
In the Shiva Temples of Tamil Nadu , the poojari gives Vibhoothi and in Vishnu Temples the poojari gives Theertham but in Rameshwaram ,this way is opposite.
The shiva Temples of Ramehwaram give Theertham of Lord Vishnu and Vishnu Temples give Vibhoothi of Lord Shiva.
7.Alwarpalli Natarajar Temple
The murthy of ALWAR NATARAJAR TEMPLE is of a special one because Natarajar murthis are always made of PANCHALOHA ( a combination of 5 metals) but the murthy of this temple is made of stone and this stone is very special as it gives the sound of bronze metal when striked lightly.
8.Ratnagiri Murugan Temple,Vellore
A miraculous thing happens everyday in this Temple.
Milk turns into curd after Abhishekam.
Yes, you heard it right.
You yourself can witness this event of milk turning into curd after the Abhishekam in done.
9.Kulithirai Manaparai Temple ( Ratnagiri Malai)
This temple is present on an hillock .
The mysterious thing that happens on this hill is absence of birds flying over it.
Though you can find birds flying near this hill to the surface, its unknown why none of those birds neither fly nor sit on the branches of trees on this hill but you can climb and visit the Temple.
10.Keralapuram Temple, Kanyakumari
Though this temple is for Lord Shiva, the Ganapathi present under the Banyan tree of this Temple is very famous for his color changing phenomenon.
During the Uttarayana Kaala, the colour of the Vigraham remains WHITE while in Dakshayana Kaalam, the colour of Ganapathi Vigraham turns black.
The reason that they say is that the vigraham is made up of CHANDIRA GAANDA KAL (a type of stone that changes color according to seasons and suns rays).
12.Samayapuram Mariamman temple
One of the famous Devi or Amman temples of TN, the vigraham of this temple is very big and is not made up of stone.
The vigraham is made up of medicinal plants just like the PALANI MURUGAN TEMPLE that is made up of NAVAPAASHANAM( where the murthy is made up of mixing 9 poisonous plants) but still the you can drink the milk poured on these Vigrahams.
13. Surli malai, Theni
Surli is a place in TN that is famous for its caves and in one such caves you can find a Shivalingam and a Nandi.
The mud surrounding this cave is just like Vibhoothi or sacred ash of LORD SHIVA and it gets continously accumulated.
14.Senji malai Murugan Temple
Normally curds are always sour in taste but the curd that is poured on the vigraham of this Lord Murugan Temple doesn’t taste sour but it tastes sweet after Abhishekam.
Note:- I know that Some of the facts you can't understand while reading my answer but those who knows Agamas can clearly understand regarding Uthsava Murthy and all as this facts are regarding Agama Temples and worship.
There are more such unique facts about the Temples of Tamil Nadu.
