Kattavakkam Vishwaroopa Lakshmi Narasimhar Temple, Kanchipuram

Address

Kattavakkam,

Kanchipuram District, Tamilnadu.

Phone: +91 – 44 – 27290805 Mobile: +91 – 99529 55500 / 9444225091

Moolavar

Vishwaroopa Lakshmi Narasimha

Amman

Lakshmi

Introduction

Vishwaroopa Lakshmi Narasimhar Temple is dedicated to God Vishnu located at Kattavakkam in Kanchipuram District of Tamilnadu. The Lord is gigantic and has an amazingly smiling face. The presiding deity is Sri Vishwaroopa Lakshmi Narasimha and is really huge-almost 25 ft. from base till the Adisesha hoods. The temple is located at Kattavakkam village, Walajabad near Kanchipuram. Kattavakkam is located at a distance of 60 Kms from Chennai via Padappai.

Puranic Significance

The Temple is believed to be 1000 years old. The Lord is seated (Veetrirundha Thirukkolam) with his consort, Goddess Lakshmi on his left lap. She is embracing him with her right hand and holding a lotus flower on her left hand. The Lord holds Sudharshana Chakra on his back left hand and bow-and-arrow on his back right hand. This indicates his intention of holding the bow and arrow in his subsequent incarnation as Lord Rama.

His forehands show Abhaya Hastham (indicating that the Lord will come to the rescue of the devotees) and Varada Hastham (pointing towards his feet conveying to the devotees that the Lord will come to the rescue of only those who fall at his feet, i.e., total surrender) postures. He has three eyes; the third one is in his forehead and the Adisesha above his head is with seven hoods. Each hood has a crowning and sparkling Nagarathnam above it.

This has been extracted from,

https://tamilnadu-favtourism.blogspot.com/2016/12/vishwaroopa-lakshmi-narasimhar-temple.html