Sri Marundeeswarar at Thiruvanmiyur Chennai

 The temple features:

This temple is located at Thiruvanmiyur in Chennai.
The carpet area of the temple is about 1,82,400 sqft and is built with two entrances  facing east and west. It has a tower in 5 stages. The temple has two corridors.(Pragarams)
The deity is called Marundeeswarar in the west facing slightly slanting pose.
The Lord's consort Devi Thirupurasundari has separate sanctum facing east. The temple tree is 'Vanni'and Theertham is Paabanasini. There are 7 stone inscriptions in this temple giving the history of the kshetram

The saint who sang hymns on the Lord:
Thirunavu-k-arasar

Legend: says that the Lord did dance performance on a full-moon day for Sage Valmeeki the author of Sri Ramayanam epic visited to this place.

Markandayar did penance for long years and the Lord appeared before him as 'Rishabaroodar' ( Bull is Rishabam in Sanskrit language) and fullfiled all his desires in this place
There are Five threerthams: They are:

• Janma-nasini
• Paaba-nasini
• Kaama-nasini
• gnana-dhayini
• and Moksha-dhayini

There was a sage called Bringi. He was a deep devotee of Lord Siva alone. He never worshipped Sakthi. Once the devi wanted to test his devotion to Siva. Hence she appeared as " ardhanareeswara" (Half man and half woman) But the sage took the form of a bumble bee and did 'parikrama' drilling a hole in between the deity. Sakthi got very angry with him and she cursed that he should be like a skeleton with-out energy.

He became very weak. Somehow he managed to enter this place and he saw a small mount. But he could not climb on top. So he realized his mistake and he worshipped sakthi also. There was an Ariel  voice which said that the sage should do penance. Accordingly he did penance for long years on the hill near by. The Lord appeared with his consort before him and cured his skeleton like form and gave him much energy. From that time the deity is called Marundeeswarar (means the deity that gave medicine ).

Because the sage sat and did penance on the hill it was called Bringi mount (Bringi-malai). The name got corrupted over time and now it is called Parangi_Malai 

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