page_title: Pasuvanthanai
section_title: Arulmigu Sri Kailasanathar
hierarchical_section_title: Pasuvanthanai / Temples / Arulmigu Sri Kailasanathar
caption_attribution_description: English: Temple car parked post run
context_page_description: Pasuvanthanai is a panchayat village in Ottapidaram Taluk in Thoothukudi district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
context_section_description: The main deity Kailasanathar is in linga form and it is a Suyambu in origin, goddess is Anadhavalli.
  The legend goes by the way that, this village and surrounding village were grazing ground for the cows of local chieftain from Kayathar. Every day a cow moved away from its herd and worshipped a linga under the vilvam tree and offered its milk. Taking cognizance of the total volume of milk going down gradually, the king ordered to find the reason. To a surprise, his servants found a cow worshipping and offering milk. They dug the place and found a lingam underneath the tree. A temple was raised on the same place.
  Currently, the temple is maintained by Arulmighu Kailasanathasamy Devasthanam board.
  A feature of the temple is bala Murugan as Somaskandhar is present in a separate shrine in between the main deity Kailasnathar shrine and Goddess Ananthavalli shrine and also the temple has statue of all 64 nayanmar's facing North. It has a separate shrine for Mahalakshmi, the goddess of wealth and Saraswathi, the goddess of wisdom and dhakshina moorthy. It also has a separate shrine for Sanishavarar apart from the Navagraham shrine.
  On an ordinary day, visitors could see all the mounts of the deities parked inside the temple premises in the pillared halls. visitors could also see permanent huge pillars cut out of single granite rocks standing in front of the temple as it serves to put huge pandal in front of the temple during festivities. These pillar rocks are very old and few of them has paved way to concrete pillars.
  The Grand Chitirai festival is celebrated with religious fervor and gaiety during the Tamil month of Cithirai. The festival is celebrated for 11 days with deities taken on a grand procession on different mounts on each day.
  
  The main event, Therottam (Temple Car festival) falls on the 9th day of the festival where people hailing from distant villages of the district participate to pull the grand temple car around the 4 majestic streets surrounding the temple.  The festival ends with the Thirukalyanam (celestial wedding) of Sri Kailasanathar with Sri Anandavalli Amman on the 11th day.
  The festival starts with the Flag hoisting (Kodiettram) in the Temple's Kodimaram, followed by procession of deities, Sri Balivinayagar Hustiradevar, Shiva and Amman.
  2nd Day - Procession of deity on karpaga vriksham and kamadhenu mount.
   
  3rd Day - Procession of deity on pudha Simha mount.
  4th Day - Procession of deity on Rishaba mount.
  5th Day - Procession of deity on Indira viman mount
  6th Day - Procession of deity on Elephant and Annam mount
  7th Day - Procession of deity on Natarajar
  8th Day - Procession of deity on Horse, palanquin, ravaneeswaran and parrot mount
  9th Day - Procession of deity on Temple Car/chariot
  10th Day - Theerthavari
  11th Day - Celestial Wedding, and bring the 11 day festival to end
  Annaabishegam is celebrated on the full moon day of Tamil month of Ippasi and Siva-Rathiri is observed in traditional way during the month of Maasi.
  Soorasambharam is also celebrated in a much colorful way, with artist performing acts of soorasambaram with huge dolls.
  Three heavy and huge pots like vessels made of copper are present inside the temple and it is used to store paddy which is harvested from the land belonging to the temple.
  These pots are very old in age and it attracts the visitors-by for its size and shape.
  Visitors could see huge bats present in the tall ilupam tree present in the backyard of the temple.
caption: Temple car parked post run
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