Vilakoli

Vilakoli

  • Vilakoli Perumal/ Thiruthanka/ DeepaPrakaasar Temple /Thoopul Desikan avathaara kshetram
  • Location: Thoopul Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu
  • Presiding deity: Vishnu in the form of Vilakoli Perumal in standing posture
  • Consort: Maragathavalli Thayar
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  • Notes:
      • Perumal took form of Vilakoli the light of lamp to save Earth from darkness
      • The darkness was because Goddess Saraswathi had created it out of anger that she was not invited to the Yaagam by Brahma.

Text compiled by Dharanya

 

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