Astabuja Perumal Temple

Ashtabuja Perumal Temple

  • Location – Kanchipuram

Constructed by – Early Pallavas

  • Period of construction – 8th century CE
  • Presiding Deity – Gajendravaradhan / Ashtabujam Perumal / Adi Kesava Perumal
  • Consort: Sri Alarmelmangai Thayar / Pushpavalli Thayar
  • Notes:
    • Legend of Magasandhan munivar who was disturbed by Indran because Indra           thought the penance is for his position.
    • Magasandhar turned into an elephant and lived with them forgetting his true form.
    •  Visited temples as elephant itself. This elephant was a great devotee of Maha Vishnu and procured lotus flowers for Him. A crocodile (another cursed devotee of Lord) caught the elephants’s leg and it summoned the Lord as Adi Moolamae.
    • Another legend is connected to Saraswathi who tried to stop Brahma’s Ashwamedha Yagnya by sending 8 demons which MahaVishnu crushed by appearing with 8 arms.

 

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