page_title: ThiruVaragunamangai Perumal Temple
section_title: Legend
hierarchical_section_title: ThiruVaragunamangai Perumal Temple / Legend
caption_attribution_description: English: Varagunamangai temple
context_page_description: ThiruVaragunamangai Permual Temple is one of the Nava Tirupathi., nine Hindu temples dedicated to Lord Vishnu located in Tiruchendur-Tirunelveli route, Tamil Nadu, India in the banks of Thamiraparani river. All these 9 temples are classified as "Divya Desams", the 108 temples of Vishnu revered by the 12 poet saints, or Alwars. Thiru Varagunamangai Permual Temple at Natham also known as Sri Vijayasana Perumal Temple, the Chandran Sthalam is 2nd of the Navathirupathis.
context_section_description: Varagunamangai, the one who granted his Dharshan to a Brahmin vedic scholar is referred to in one of the poems of Nammalwar, he must be posterior to Varaguna Pandya from whose name it is assumed Varagunamangai took its name.  But there are number of instances where this logic is not pertinent.   The temple has a five-tiered rajagopuram amidst lush vegetation around the temple.
  The lord here appeared in answer to the prayer of sage Romesar who performed severe penances for several thousand years.
caption: Image of the gopuram from inside the temple
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