{"id":21764,"date":"2023-04-10T03:42:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T03:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/?p=21764"},"modified":"2023-06-23T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T12:39:24","slug":"varagaeaswaran-temple-damal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/10\/varagaeaswaran-temple-damal\/","title":{"rendered":"Varagaeaswaran Temple Damal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Varagaeaswaran Temple Damal<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Location: Dhaamal<br \/>\nDamarnadu, a sub division under Thondai mandalam<br \/>\nKanchipuram, Tamil Nadu<\/li>\n<li>Presiding deity: Shiva as the deity who was worshipped by Varaha avatar of Vishnu<\/li>\n<li>Consort: Bhudevi Thayar<\/li>\n<li>Constructed by:<br \/>\nPallavas Nandivarman III period<br \/>\nLater additions made by cholas Kulothunga II and Rajaraja II<br \/>\nVijayanagara Empire Tirumala Raya and Achyutaraya<br \/>\nRajagopuram built during Vijayanagara Nayak period.<\/li>\n<li>Years of construction:7th century A.D<\/li>\n<li>Notes:<br \/>\n* There are many stories behind the Village name Damal. The word Damar could be from the \u201cThamarai (Lotus) tank near temple\u201d or from the name of a Pallava Chieftain Daman (Daman Thondrikon) ruled Damar Nadu<br \/>\n* a Vijayanagara Nayak ruler Damarala Venkattappa Nayaka ruled this place.<br \/>\n* In fact Damar is also referred\u00a0\u00a0in sangam literature Purananuru, a poet by name Damappa Kannanar.<br \/>\n* A number of inscriptions are available about this village.<br \/>\n* Kulothunga I (1070-1120CE) Nittavinodanallur in DamarNadu. Granted 3veli land in village in Tamar Nadu\/Tamar kottam<br \/>\n* 1524CE Tirumala Raya son of Krishnadevaraya income exemption and taxes relieved<br \/>\n* 1532CE Vijayanagara period Achutaraya period gift of land by Jalakaraja alias Siruthirumalirasar to Lord Thirupannriswaramudaiyar \u2013 Thamarudaiyar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Text compiled by Dharanya<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Total number of photos (45)<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/photos\/tags\/varagaeaswaran_temple_damal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21766\" src=\"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-10-at-9.12.10-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1307\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-10-at-9.12.10-AM.png 1307w, https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-10-at-9.12.10-AM-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-10-at-9.12.10-AM-1024x511.png 1024w, https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-10-at-9.12.10-AM-768x383.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1307px) 100vw, 1307px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varagaeaswaran Temple Damal Location: Dhaamal Damarnadu, a sub division under Thondai mandalam Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu Presiding deity: Shiva as the deity who was worshipped by Varaha avatar of Vishnu Consort: Bhudevi Thayar Constructed by: Pallavas Nandivarman III period Later additions made by cholas Kulothunga II and Rajaraja II Vijayanagara Empire Tirumala Raya and Achyutaraya Rajagopuram [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21764","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\/21764","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=21764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22685,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions\/22685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desikrishphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}