Sri Prasanna Venkatachalapathy Temple Tallakulam

Sri Prasanna Venkatachalapathy Temple – Tallakulam

Arulmigu Prasanna Venkatachalapathy temple, Tallakulam is a Vaishnavite temple, constructed by King (Mannar) Thirumalai Naicker, dating back to 600 years ago. This temple is under purview of the administration of Kallalagar temple of Azhagar koil, of district.

Goddesses here in this temple are ‘Bhoodevi’ and ‘Sridevi’. Utsavar is named Srinivasar. This temple’s Theertha is ‘well water’. Hanuman is found to be in a posture of ‘anger mode’ and opposite to that is situated Chakkaraththaazhvaar.

The main deity Sri Prasanna Venkatachalapathy is seen facing towards Southern direction.  Normally, in Vaishnavite temples, main deity faces Eastern direction..

History

During the reign of King (Mannar) Thirumalai Naicker, he was a devotee of Lord Vishnu (Shri Venkatachalapathy) in Tirupathi. He used to have his breakfast after his morning Pooja. His morning Pooja was being done following the Pooja of Lord Venkatachalapathy in Tirupathi. For that ‘Bell mandaps’ (‘Manikatti Mandapangal’ in Tamil) had been constructed by him at various places from Tirupathi to Madurai. Once the Pooja at Tirupathi started, the first bell in Tirupathi was rung and thereafter the other bells following it. And on hearing the sound of the last bell in Madurai, King Thirumalai Naicker to finish his pooja and thereafter to have had his breakfast. On one day, there was no sign of ringing the bells. So he rushed to the spot of Bell mandap nearby his palace in Madurai. On his way, he felt an obstacle which was a statue of an ‘anger mode’ Anjaneya. He stopped for a while and found an immediate darshan (Prasanna) of Lord Venkatachalapathy there (now called Tallakulam). This made him very astonishing and pleased. So, he decided to build a temple for Lord Venkatachalapathy. So was the construction of it and named ‘Arulmigu Prasanna Venkatachalapathy Temple.

‘Vaikunta Ekadasi’, Chitra (Poornami) festival, ‘Purattaasi’ (Brahmotsav) festival, Tamil New Year, Pongal festival in the month of ‘Thai’ are some of the important festivals celebrated here in this temple.