BHOJEESWARAR TEMPLE
Distance: 2kms from Samayapuram
Shiva: Bhojeeswarar
Speciality:
The name of the place is commonly referred as Samayapuram but the place where the temple is exactly situated is called as S. Kannanur Kuppam.
Hoysala King Veerasomeswara built this temple of Granite stone in Chola style when his capital was Kannanur Kottam in Chola country. He named the Shiva as Posaleeswarar, Hoysaleeswarar and Bhojeeswaramudaiyar.
The inscriptions of Veera Someswara Hoysala which is found in the northern wall of the third Prahara of the Jambukeswarar temple of Jambukeswaram (Thiruvanaikka) mentions that he consecrated the Bojeeswarar temple and made a grant of Paddy derived from the villages of Narasingamangalam, Kannanur, Ottanur, Sengavoor and others in Rajaraja Valanaadu.
All the Prahara and parivara deities found normally in a Shiva temple are found here.
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