Pillaipakkam Vaitheeswaran Temple, Kanchipuram

Address

Pillaipakkam, Sriperampudur,

Kanchipuram district,

Tamil Nadu 602105

Moolavar

Sri Vaitheeswaran

Amman

Sri Thaiyalnayagi Ambal

Introduction

Vaitheeswaran Temple is dedicated to God Shiva located at Pillaipakkam village in Kanchipuram District of Tamilnadu. Presiding deity is known as Vaitheeswaran and Mother is known as Sri Thaiyalnayagi Ambal. Pillaipakkam is located at about 3 kms from the Bangalore highway en route Manimangalam.

Puranic Significance

This Temple is a Pallava era temple renovated later by Paranthaka Chola II (Sundara Chola). This temple is believed to be 1000 years old. The temple was destroyed by the invasion of Golkonda Nawab and renovated in 1977 by Sri Namachivaya Chettiar of this village.

As per the legend of this place, once the son of the temple’s Archagar was bitten by a snake and the Archagar put him in front of the Lord and prayed to him. The Lord then came in the form of a cow and licked the part of the boy which was bitten by the snake. He got cured and thus the Lord Vaitheeswaran’s curing power came to light. The Swamy was known as Marundeeswarar after he treated the kid of the snake poison he started to be known as vaiydhyanatha Swamy. The village was then known as “Pillai Nakkiya Pakkam” (the place where kid was licked) and became Pillaipakkam in later days.

Sozhavalavan Nadu was the earlier name of this village and after this incident it started to be known as Pillai Nakkiya Pakkam.

Special Features

The temple is called as Vada Vaitheeswaran Temple. The vimanam is Gajaprashta Style. Presiding deity is known as Vaitheeswaran and Mother is known as Thaiyal Nayagi. Lord Dakshinamoorthy is very special here and called as Kala Dakshinamoorthy. He is seen with Sulaayutham and Nagabaranam and so he is considered to relieve people from Naga Dhosham. Kala Bairavar is present. As a special feature, Chandikeshwari also present along with Chandikeswarar.