KAILASANADHAR TEMPLE
Distance: 16kms from Kumbakonam and 6kms from Swami Malai
Distance: 16kms from Kumbakonam and 6kms from Swami Malai
Shiva: Kailasanadhar
Amman: Parvathi and Jada Makuda Sowndaryanayaki
Any deformation in the body can be completely cured by worshipping the Kailasanadhar of this temple.
Saint Thanavar lived in this village. He was a great devotee of Lord Shiva. He did not have a child. He prayed to Shiva to bestow him with a child. Shiva responded to his prayer saying that he would be blessed with a child if he takes up the task of teaching Vedas to Children. Sage Thanavar performed his job sincerely. His wife became pregnant. One day when he was uttering the Vedic Mantra a student began to sleep. The saint got angry and he punished him severely. The boy could not bear the intensity of the punishment. He started crying. The infant in his wife's womb heard the cry. It spoke out saying that the boy was very tired and he slept without his knowledge. He did not do it intensionally. Thanavar got very angry with the infant in the womb for supporting the student and cursed that he would be born with 8 Vakrams (crooks or dimensions) in his body (in tamil it is Ashta Vikram means Ashta Konal). The infant in the womb was very intelligent it learned all the Vedas in the womb itself. When the Child was born with 8 crooks in the body he was called Ashta Vakran. He grew up in that form and when he attained a certain age he was advised to install 8 lingas and perform poojas to get relieved from his Vakras. He worshipped Lord Shiva (Kailasanadhar) and installed 8 lingas and performed Poojas as he was instructed. He got relieved from his Vakras and he became a sage and an ardent devotee of Lord Shiva. He spent his years in preaching about Vedas and Vedic scriptures and the greatness of Lord Shiva. He preached Ashta Vakra Geetha to Janaka (the father of Seetha). So one who visits this temple will get relieved from the Vakras (crooks) of body, brain and soul. Koonan in tamil means Deformation. So this village is known as Koonachery in Tamil and Ashta Vakra Sthala in sanskrit.
Janaka, Sita's father, proposed to perform Yaaga. A little boy was waiting to enter to the place where the Yaaga was conducted. He was Ashta Vakran with 8 disabilities of the body - hunch back, twisted hands, bent body, crossed head and lame legs. Nobody noticed him. He wanted to meet the head of the Pandits named Vandhi. The gate keepers did not send him in. When Janaka came to know about this he met the boy and asked him the purpose of meeting the Pandit Vandhi. He said that he wanted to conquer him in the Vedic debate. Janaka told him that nobody can conquer Vandhi and there is still a person yet to be born to do that. He also added that people who challenged him were defeated and drowned in Ganga as that was the condition of the debate. He adviced him to go back. The boy replied that Vandhi would have debated with people who did not have full knowledge and are not fully learned moreover he said that Vandhi was proud and this pride would put him down. Vandhi has drowned his father and he had come to pay him back. Uthalagar the teacher of Vedas had many disciples. Kaholar also called Thanavar was dull but simple and very disciplined. The other disciples mocked him. But Uthalagar gave his daughter Sujatha in marriage to Kaholar because of his character and discipline. Ashta Vakran was their child. In his mother's womb he followed Uthalagar's teachings. When Kaholar was learning his lessons the baby in the womb found that he was wrong. This created dissatisfaction of his father's learnings. He was cursed by his father when he tried to state that his father was wrong. This made him twist and turn in the womb which created 8 disabilities. Before the age of 12 he became a scholar and came to know about his father's end that he was made to drown in the Ganga as Kahola lost the debate with Vandhi through his mother. Ashta Vakran and Vandhi debated with one another for many days. Everyone were amazed to find such a scholarship in the boy in Vedic philosophy. Finally Vandhi could not answer to a question asked by Ashta Vakra and therefore he had to lose the debate. He had to be ready to be drowned.
Vandhi was the son of Varuna. Varunan was conducting a Yaaga in Varuna Loga. He needed pandits for the Yaga. So Vandhi planned to conduct debates with Pandits made them lose and made them drown in Ganga so that they could reach the Varuna Loga as Varuna was the King of water. Vandhi begged Ashta Vakran for his life. Ashta Vakran asked him to promise to bring back all the Pandits including his father back to the world. He did so and he saved his life. All the sages cursed Varunan for his tricks. Ashta Vakran took his father back to his native place and later attained a handsome figure after the Shiva pooja by establishing 8 lingas.
Janaka, Sita's father, proposed to perform Yaaga. A little boy was waiting to enter to the place where the Yaaga was conducted. He was Ashta Vakran with 8 disabilities of the body - hunch back, twisted hands, bent body, crossed head and lame legs. Nobody noticed him. He wanted to meet the head of the Pandits named Vandhi. The gate keepers did not send him in. When Janaka came to know about this he met the boy and asked him the purpose of meeting the Pandit Vandhi. He said that he wanted to conquer him in the Vedic debate. Janaka told him that nobody can conquer Vandhi and there is still a person yet to be born to do that. He also added that people who challenged him were defeated and drowned in Ganga as that was the condition of the debate. He adviced him to go back. The boy replied that Vandhi would have debated with people who did not have full knowledge and are not fully learned moreover he said that Vandhi was proud and this pride would put him down. Vandhi has drowned his father and he had come to pay him back. Uthalagar the teacher of Vedas had many disciples. Kaholar also called Thanavar was dull but simple and very disciplined. The other disciples mocked him. But Uthalagar gave his daughter Sujatha in marriage to Kaholar because of his character and discipline. Ashta Vakran was their child. In his mother's womb he followed Uthalagar's teachings. When Kaholar was learning his lessons the baby in the womb found that he was wrong. This created dissatisfaction of his father's learnings. He was cursed by his father when he tried to state that his father was wrong. This made him twist and turn in the womb which created 8 disabilities. Before the age of 12 he became a scholar and came to know about his father's end that he was made to drown in the Ganga as Kahola lost the debate with Vandhi through his mother. Ashta Vakran and Vandhi debated with one another for many days. Everyone were amazed to find such a scholarship in the boy in Vedic philosophy. Finally Vandhi could not answer to a question asked by Ashta Vakra and therefore he had to lose the debate. He had to be ready to be drowned.
Vandhi was the son of Varuna. Varunan was conducting a Yaaga in Varuna Loga. He needed pandits for the Yaga. So Vandhi planned to conduct debates with Pandits made them lose and made them drown in Ganga so that they could reach the Varuna Loga as Varuna was the King of water. Vandhi begged Ashta Vakran for his life. Ashta Vakran asked him to promise to bring back all the Pandits including his father back to the world. He did so and he saved his life. All the sages cursed Varunan for his tricks. Ashta Vakran took his father back to his native place and later attained a handsome figure after the Shiva pooja by establishing 8 lingas.
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