Seven Hooded Snake, is found as an Umbrella to Him.
Legend has it that, while Rama was returning to Ayodhya,on the request of the Vaikanasa Rishis to give darshan to them Lord Rama graced the place with His presence with Sita, Lakshmana and Hanuman.
Lakshmana , in his original form as Adisesha, appears as the Seven hooded Snake.
Venugopalaswamy with his consorts Rukmini and Sathyabhama is present in a separate Sanctum.
There is also this legend that Lord Shiva rested here after becoming tired of running away from Bhasmasura, during Mohini Avatar.
The Mohini Idol is placed in a nearby temple as this temple was in disrepair.
How to reach.
From Panruti , near Cuddlaore.
By Road.
After crossing Kadampuliyur, Samarasa Sanmarga Sabai temple on the left.
About 100 metres, a large water tank .
Turn left here towards Chattharam.
At the Chattharam junction, turn right.
Vengadampet is two kilometres from there.
Buses are available to Panruti from all Major Towns in Tamil Nadu.
Tamil and Sanatana Dharma are so intermingled that one finds numerous references to The Tamils and Tamil Kings in the Rig Veda, Ramayana, Mahabharata and other Puranas.
Ramayana Mahabhrata Dynastie. Click to Enlarge.
I have written quite a few articles on this.
The Chola Kings trace their ancestry to the Solar Dynasty.,Surya Vamsa.
Chera King Udiyan Cheralaathan fed both the Kaurava and Pandya armies.
Krishna killed a Pandyan King(5:48)
Chera and Chola Kings were defeated by Krishna (7:11)
King Sarangathdwaja wanted to attack Dwaraka to avenge his father’s Death, the Pandya King, after obtaining weapons from Bhisma, Drona, Balarama and Kripa.
However wiser counsel prevailed and he dropped the idea.
Later he fought alongside the side of the Pandavas against Drona(7:23).
He was rated as an Athiratha by Bhishma( (5,172)
When the mighty Pandya, that foremost of all wielder of weapons, has been slain in battle by the Pandavas, what can it be but destiny?(9:2)
Pandya, who dwelt on the coast-land near the sea, came accompanied by troops of various kinds to Yudhishthira, the king of kings (5:19). There hath come Pandya. Remarkably heroic and endued with prowess and energy that have no parallel, he is devoted to the Pandava cause. (5:22).
Pandya was present during the Rajasuya ceremony of Pandava King Yudhisthira.
The Kings of Chera and Pandya, brought numberless jars of gold filled with fragrant sandal juice from the hills of Malaya, and loads of sandal and aloe wood from the Dardduras hills, and many gems of great brilliancy and fine cloths inlaid with gold.
Singhalas gave those best of sea-born gems called the lapis lazuli, and heaps of pearls also, and hundreds of coverlets for elephants (2:51).(2:36,43).
Draupadi Swayamvara.
Pandya King took part in the event Panchala princess Draupadi’s Swayamvara (MBh 1:189)
I have often wondered about the antiquity of the South of India,. called Dravida Desa, the Ancient Langauge Tamil which is often quoted by the Vedas and Puranas and tamil Kings being mentioned in the Ithihasaas ,Ramayana and Mahabharata.
Rig Veda refers to Pearls, Sandalwood,Akhil( a type of Incense wood),Elephants and intricate silk from the Dravida desa,pointing out the Chera Kingdom, now called Kerala, which was once a part of the Tamil Chera Kingdom.
There is also this reference of Viswamitra banishing his sons to Dravida Desa.
Their descendant, Apasthamba compiled the Apasthamba Sutra, incorporating Tamil practices into Vedic Culture.
Indus Valley Harappan Inscrption found in Hampi,Karnataka.
Tamil Records show that Lord Krishna attendd the Tamil Poets’ Conclave, He married a Pandyan Princess and had a Daughter through her.
Arjuna performed Tirta Yatra, Pilgrimage to South and married a Pandyan Princess.
He had a son through her , Babruvahana, who was the only one to defeat Arjuna and killed him(Arjuna was revived by Krishna)
Parashurama created what is Now Kerala .
Balarama visited the Dravida Desa and worshiped Lord Subrahmanya, worshiped there as Murugan.
Chera King Udiyan Cheralaathan and another Pandyan King participated in the Kurukshetra War of Mahabharata.
While Udiyan Ceralaathan fed both the Kaurava and Pandava armies during the war and performed Sraddha for the slain in the Mahabharata war,a Pandyan King Darshak fought on the side of the Pandavas.
Lord Krishna fought with a Pandya King and killed him.
There are references in the Bhavatham and Tamil Classics that during one of the Tsunamis,Satyavrata Manu, the ancestor of Lord Rama migrated to South and his son Ikshvaku founded the Ikshvaku dynasty.
The Chola Kings trace their Lineage to the Solar Dynasty of Rama and one of their early Kings called Sibi belonged to Ikshvaku Dynasty.
Mahabharata and Raghuvamsa of Kalidasa record this.
The archeological finding in Arikkamedu in Pondicherry and a Vedic Homa Kunda is found with references to Vedic Rites in Kanya Kumari dating back to 280BC.
More archeological finds are reported from Tamil Nadu linking Sanatana Dharma and the Tamils.
Tamil Brahmi script was found in Harappa.
Now comes the startling find.
Drawings of the Indus Valley Scripts are found in Hampi, Karnataka!
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The writing system of the Indus Valley Civilization is not deciphered and it still remains a mystery. All attempts to decipher it have failed. This is one of the reasons why the Indus Valley Civilization is one of the least known of the important early civilizations of antiquity.
“On the goddess Kotamma temple woollen market way there is a rocky roof shelter for shepherds and sheep to stay at night up to morning.”
The sentence emerged after a set of 19 drawing and pictographs discovered on a hilltop in Hampi(Karnataka, India) were deciphered using root morphemes of Gondi Tribe language.
Eleven of the Hampi pictographs resemble those of the Indus valley civilisation. This innocuous sounding statement could actually be a revolutionary find linking the Gond or Gondi tribe to the Indus Valley civilisation.
The Gondi people are a Dravidian people of central India, spread over the states of Madhya Pradesh, eastern Maharashtra (Vidarbha), Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana and Western Odisha. With over four million people, they are the largest tribe in Central India.
“Eleven of the Hampi pictographs resemble the Late Harappan writing of the Indus Valley Civilisation”, says Dr KM Metry, professor of tribal studies at the Kannada University. The professor claims that this shows that after the collapse of the civilisation situated in North-West India, the Harappans moved to other parts of the country, with some of them settling in Central India and a majority of them in the South.”
My surmise that the Dravida connection with Sanatana Dharma is more deep than considered and may be the Vedic Culture prevailed here along with the Indus Valley civilization, if not earlier.
* I have noticed a curious fact about Harappa.
The name Harappa is very differnt from the other Northern town names.
In fact, as far as my search goes, it is Unique
Among all the Indian languages,only Tamil has the word ‘Appa’ for Fathere.
And Shiva was called father in Tamil anitquity and He is addressed as Appan in medieval Tamil literature of the Shaivas and Vaishanava Saint , Azhwar calls Him , Mukkannapa, father with three Eyes!
Following is the definition of the word Haran, a name for Shiva.
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