Vedhanadhar at Cheyaru

 The temple features:

This temple is located in Cheyaru about 28 kms in the South west direction from Kanchipuram on the banks of the river Cheyar in Tamil Nadu.
The carpet area of the temple is 2,28,000 sqft with a tower in 7 stages on the eastern side and It has two corridors.There are 29 stone inscriptions giving this temple's history. The deity is called Vedhanadhar and is in the east facing pose. It is said that it is self incarnated . The Lord's consort Devi Ilamulai-Nayaki has a separate sanctum also facing the eastern side.. The temple tree is Palm tree and it has 2 theerthams. Those are Cheyar theertham, and Kalayanakodi theertham

The saints who sang hymns on the Lord:
Thiru-gnana-sambandhar, & Thiru-navuk-karasar

The significance of this temple is that the Lord preached the essence of the vedas to sages and saints in this place.Hence this place has another name which is Thiruvothoor. The peculiar thing in this temple is that the Nandhi is not looking towards the Lord like in any other Siva temple but it is facing eastern side.

Once there were no yield from any palm tree in this area. So all the owners of palm tree groves very sadly told about this to saint Thiru-gnana-sambandhar when he was visiting here on his pilgrimage. The saint prayed to Lord Siva and composed a hymn for the protection of the village and for the prosperity all the palm tree owners. The miracle was that all the palm trees became productive right away. All the villagers were very happy and praised the saint. The saint expressed his gratitude to the Lord and proceed on his further tours to other Siva temples.

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