Sri Akka Salai Eswran, Tiruppur

Address

Sri Akka Salai Eswran, (Kottai Anumantharayaswamy Thiru Kovil), Eswaran Kovil Road, Sevur, Tiruppur District, Tamil Nadu 641655

Diety

Sri Akka salai Eswaran/ Anumantharayaswamy Amman: Sri Vadivudaimangai

Introduction

Sri Akka Salai Eswran Temple also popularly known as Kottai Anumantharayaswamy Thiru Kovil was a part of Kongu Heritage walk scheduled on 12 th and 13 th, since this original Shiva Temple was converted in a Anajaneyar / Hanuman temple and called as Kottai Anumantharayaswamy Thiru Kovil. As per historians, the word Akka Salai means a place where ornaments are made out of Gold, minting of money, Statues made of metals. And the craftsmen are called Kammalars and they add this word Akkasalai with their name to distinguish from others. Moolavar, Sri Akka Salai Eswaran/ Sri Anumantharayaswamy Consort, Sri Vadivudaimangai This temple is facing North and a Deepa sthambam with a mandapam is in front of asbestos sheet canopy extended from arthamandapam. The temple consists of sanctum sanctorum, antarala and arthamandapam. In sanctum sanctorum Hanuman as Anumantharayaswamy is in the form of Bas-relief on a stone slab. Hanuman’s face is facing west. On the west side of the main temple there is a sannadhi facing north in dilapidated condition. Looking at the Vimana, this may be Ambal’s sannadhi when the main temple was as Sri Akka Salai Eswran Temple. The sanctum sanctorum walls have the niches / koshtas, which are empty now. The thorana above the koshta is simple, in the one thorana a Shiva Linga is there and a lotus flower motif on the other. There is no Vimana over the sanctum