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sadagopan.org ) left for the husband to fulfill husband to fulfill the boons granted the the king and hated ngdom in his absence with this vana vaasam. The heart out of respect for his father and out of respect for his father aNa for the that she made to insults interest in being interest in being on the hereditary throne and ruled as se ran to her brother Ravana's court Raama from becoming the rightful Raama from becoming e RAmA as the King of Ayodhya. Evil Ayodhya. of as the King e RAmA hy. Dasaratha, of Ayodhya the King RAmA to abandon Sita and marry her. RAmA to abandon Sita and marry her. aryam and destroyed the ogres, who aryam and destroyed the ogres, who to return to Ayodhya to be coronated to return to Ayodhya to be roy RAmA and make Sita his own wife. atha's and His mothers' requests to cted Bharatha returned to Nandigram Pithruvakya Paripalanam his earlier promises to Kaikeyi and as a his earlier promises to Kaikeyi mother and step mothers went to meet to mother and step mothers went i (RAmA's step-mother), who resented i (RAmA's step-mother), who resented ded and pressed her ded and pressed 9 nding her mistress of nding her mistress RAmA was against breaking the promiseRAmA was against breaking DandakAraNyam. On the way, RavaNa's forest for 14 years (Vana Vaasam). be crowned instead of RAmA and be crowned instead ssed Bharata rule the ki to Sita. Angry Surpanaka minus ears and no his mother for scheming to deprive his mother for scheming RAmA Bharatha, his inheritor of the kingdom. persuade to forest the in RAmA the protection of His Paadhuka. A deje and placed the PaadhukAs of his brother a servant of the Raama Paadhuka. His avathAra ka RAmA proceeded with were causing harm to the sages of sister, Surpanaka showed up and invited RAmA had her disfigured through Lakshm in Lanka and wanted her brother to dest as per his father's heart-felt desire. as per his father's heart-felt return to Ayodhya. He ble Mandara (Kuni), servant maid of Kaikey RAmA, poisoned mind by remi Kaikeyi's Kaikeyi was persua by King Dasaratha. earlier. to her by him the promises made Her request was: Bharatha should (1) her own son the (2) RAmA should be exiled to his father ( following the command of forest; Sita Devi and Lakshmana joined him on broken Dasaratha died. Bharatha had no made to his Bhar father and declined It was the era of RAmAchandra Murt RAmAchandra the era of It was wanted to coronate his eldest son, Princ eldest son, to coronate his wanted fulfill to except choice no had king The the throne result Lord RAmA abandoned sadagopan.org Dasaratha. yet hadfailed toprotectSitaDevi,theda the abduction ofSitaDevibyRavana RAmA went in search of Sita devi. Jatayu, the old eagle king told RAmA about abducted. heartbroken,when Vanam. RAmAwas away fromthehutandtookhertoLa His wife. Heusedstealth toabduct Surpanaka andwenttothehutin Ravana wasoverwhelmedby thedescription ofthebeautySitaby

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Lanka. The nAma BrahmAstram. He numAn’s tail on fire as numAn’s tail on Ravana to surrender before Lord before to surrender Ravana mA inciting the wrath of Ravana, who mA inciting the t a Sethu/bridge to taining permission from the samudra od counsel of VibhishaNa, the pious VibhishaNa, od counsel of Sri RAmA. Sri Rama then decided to Sri RAmA. Sri Rama then decided rnt down the palaces and mansions of and mansions palaces rnt down the numan bore the happy news of finding numan bore the happy e to the power of e to the his entourage reached the sea shore his entourage reached d purity protected HanumAn against the Ravanaa's rage HanumAn's and secured 13 ta from Her prison there. red his servants to set Ha red his servants HanumAn in the court of Ravana SitA at the Asoka Vanam in Lanka to invade Lanka and retrieve Si On their way to Lanka, RAmA and Then crossing the ocean once again Ha Then crossing (Present day Dhanushkodi-Sethu). On ob rajan to build a dam (Sethu) across the ocean to reach Lanka, the army of rajan to build a dam (Sethu) across the ocean to reach RAmA made up of monkeys and bears buil let himself be captured, in deferenc captured, be let himself

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to Naamagiri Kshetra to serve Lord to Naamagiri eet. Even today, it can be seen that that seen be can it today, Even eet. increasing his height till he reached till he reached height increasing his tion for Lava and Kushation for and Himself of Sri Vaikuntham. HanumAn chose to chose HanumAn Vaikuntham. of Sri rasimha feet are in a straight line. rasimha feet are time for Raama Kathaa sravaNamtime for Raama and 25 The colossal HanumAn at NAmakkal The colossal HanumAn

abode supreme back to His returned afterwards RAmA performedafterwards the corona stay on this earth and devote his stay on this Lord. HanumAn returned dhyAnam on His the in Lord who was the not see he could he arrived there, Narasimha. When Mountain, so he started middle of Cave the level where he could see the Lord's F he could see the where the level Siriya Thiruvadi’s Sri Na eyes and Lord sadagopan.org from Her.Comingout oftheSannidhi,th katAksham captivates onesuchthatitis seated there.Here no photographyisa turn totheleft.Itisanextraordin Namagiri Thaayar’ssannidhi understand theKshetraMahima. uslookatthe nAmagiri sthalam,let So afterthebriefencapsulationofth NAMAGIRI KSHETRAM is foundasoneenters thetempleandthentakesa NAmagiri ThAyar 26 ary visualtreattoseeHermajestically ary llowed inMoola Sthanam.Herkaarunya e RAmakathAandtheoriginof virtual tour of the temple and also ofthetempleand also virtual tour ere is a big Portrait of Namagiri Valli Valli ere isabigPortraitof Namagiri impossible to take one's eyes away -VIRTUAL TOUR

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mharam, same angry come down to earth to worship ourcome down to earth to worship is giving the darshan after slaying slaying is giving the darshan after Chandran, Brahma and Chandran, Brahma It is Rudhran. t (Vakshathalam), a is adorned with he Chandran are Kainkaryam doing the of nveying to the Lord the happenings in nveying to the grAmAams, brahma holds a silver he ght of ghee lamp. One can also see here can One lamp. of ghee ght very few temples, where one can see all few very ample of the architecture and sculpture 31 after the Hiranya Sa after the Hiranya PerumAL in Garuda vAhanam - NAmakkal Hiranyan and one can still see some blood stains in His right palm. Hiranyan and one can still see ex best the of one is temple Cave This the world in both the ears. Suryan and the world in both the ears. VeNN Saamaram. Brahma and Rudhran have one of the Adbutha Nara Kesari. It is site. Lord the three Moorthys at one the images of Sanakan, Sanathan, Suryan, the images of and Sanathan are co said that Sanakan SaligrAmA Maalai containing 108 Sali 108 Maalai containing SaligrAmA His eyes. in expression is seen His eyes glow in the li In the dark cave, knees. Our Thayar staysknees. Our in his right ches desired As magic. black and evil the nullify to is this staff); silver (a dhandam lord is sitting here by Mahalakshmi, sadagopan.org the ChalukyaKing,Pulakeshi. Perumal inthesecavesknownfortheirsp of BaadaamiCavetemplesKarnatak withlot cave templesofLordNarasimha carving asroof,floor andpillars. Weca of Pallava Kingdom. This cave is very big in size and has been designed by aswa vAhanam 32 a. There is a huge Ugranarasimhar a. ThereisahugeUgranarasimhar of uniquefeatures.ItremindsadiyEn n saythatthisisoneofthespecial lendid periodarchitecturelinkedto

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