{"id":20881,"date":"2023-04-05T02:27:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T02:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/?p=20881"},"modified":"2023-06-12T00:49:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:49:33","slug":"astabuja-perumal-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/astabuja-perumal-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Astabuja Perumal Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashtabuja Perumal Temple<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Location &#8211; Kanchipuram<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Constructed by &#8211; Early Pallavas<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Period of construction &#8211; 8th century CE<\/li>\n<li>Presiding Deity &#8211; Gajendravaradhan \/ Ashtabujam Perumal \/ Adi Kesava Perumal<\/li>\n<li>Consort: Sri Alarmelmangai Thayar \/ Pushpavalli Thayar<\/li>\n<li>Notes:\n<ul>\n<li>Legend of Magasandhan munivar who was disturbed by Indran because Indra\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0thought the penance is for his position.<\/li>\n<li>Magasandhar turned into an elephant and lived with them forgetting his true form.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Visited 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&#8217;s leg and it summoned the Lord as Adi Moolamae.<\/li>\n<li>Another legend is connected to Saraswathi who tried to stop Brahma&#8217;s Ashwamedha Yagnya by sending 8 demons which MahaVishnu crushed by appearing with 8 arms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Text compiled by DharanyaTotal number of photos (67)<\/p>\n<h3>Total number of photos (13)<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/photos\/tags\/astabuja_perumal_temple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20883\" src=\"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-05-at-7.56.31-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1305\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-05-at-7.56.31-AM.png 1305w, https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-05-at-7.56.31-AM-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-05-at-7.56.31-AM-1024x476.png 1024w, https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-05-at-7.56.31-AM-768x357.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1305px) 100vw, 1305px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashtabuja Perumal Temple Location &#8211; Kanchipuram Constructed by &#8211; Early Pallavas Period of construction &#8211; 8th century CE Presiding Deity &#8211; Gajendravaradhan \/ Ashtabujam Perumal \/ Adi Kesava Perumal Consort: Sri Alarmelmangai Thayar \/ Pushpavalli Thayar Notes: Legend of Magasandhan munivar who was disturbed by Indran because Indra\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0thought the penance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kancipuram","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20881"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20885,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881\/revisions\/20885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}