A rare view of the Sholinghur Temple

25.12.2010

I made my annual pilgrimage to Sholinghur today. As we had spent the night in Sriperumbudur, we took the Kaveripakkam route. We took the right at Kaveripakkam on the Chennai-Bangalore highway after the Kancheepuram cutting. We passed through Banavaram which the railhead for Sholinghur and made our way to Sholinghur. On the way we could glimpse the holy hills on our left from quite far away. The Kaveripakkam road runs radially and meets the Arokonam connecting road very near shoilnghur. So we got a rare glimpse of both the hills in a line. So, here is a shot of Chinna Malai with the shrine of Yoga Anjaneyar on top and behind it at a dizzying height is the Yoga Narasimhar Temple atop the Periya Malai, where Lord Narasimha and Amirthavalli Thayar reside. You can see the Gold Leaf Plated Vimanam of the Lord shining brightly in the morning sun.