{"id":21306,"date":"2023-04-08T06:44:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T06:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/?p=21306"},"modified":"2023-06-12T06:33:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T06:33:29","slug":"mahaleaswarar-makaral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/08\/mahaleaswarar-makaral\/","title":{"rendered":"MAHALEASWARAR -MAKARAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAHALEASWARAR -MAKARAL<\/p>\n<p>Maakaaleeswarar Temple \/Thirumakaraleeswarar<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Location: Magaral, 12kms from Utramerur.<\/li>\n<li>Presiding deity: Shiva worshipped as Thirumaagaral<\/li>\n<li>Consort: Tribuvana Nayaki<\/li>\n<li>Constructed by: Cholas<br \/>\nLater additions made by Nayakars and Vijayanagara Empire<\/li>\n<li>Years of construction:<br \/>\nAround 1200years old temple<\/li>\n<li>Notes:<br \/>\nMakaral means Iguana. Shiva appeared in the form of Iguana to teach a lesson to his devotee.<br \/>\nOnce a king ordered that everyday a jackfruit needs to be carried to Chidambaram Nataraja temple.<br \/>\nA young boy, when his turn came, burnt the jackfruit tree so that villagers will be relieved.<br \/>\nThe king chased the boy for punishing him. A golden Iguana crossed the king and entered an anthill.<br \/>\nKing dug the anthill and found blood oozing. He realized its Lord that taught him a lesson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Total number of photos (1)<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/photos\/tags\/mahaleaswarar_makaral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21307\" src=\"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MAHALEASWARAR-mAKARAL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"641\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAHALEASWARAR -MAKARAL Maakaaleeswarar Temple \/Thirumakaraleeswarar Location: Magaral, 12kms from Utramerur. Presiding deity: Shiva worshipped as Thirumaagaral Consort: Tribuvana Nayaki Constructed by: Cholas Later additions made by Nayakars and Vijayanagara Empire Years of construction: Around 1200years old temple Notes: Makaral means Iguana. Shiva appeared in the form of Iguana to teach a lesson to his devotee. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21306","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\/21306","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=21306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22578,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21306\/revisions\/22578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}