 Sri
Pancha Mukha Anjaneya Temple, Tiruvallur
Location
The Sri
Panchamukha Anjaneya Temple is situated in Tiruvallur the headquarters
of Tiruvallur District, Tamilnadu. Tiruvallur is 40 Kms away from
Chennai on the road towards Tirupatti from chennai.The Tiruvallur town
is well connected from chennai by road and railway.Sri Panchamukha
Anjaneya Temple is situated in away from the Railway station &
0.5kms away from Town Bus stand.
Origin
of Sri Panchamukha Hanuman
The origin of Sri Panchamukha Hanuman can be traced to a
story in the Ramayana. During the war between Lord Ram and Ravana,
Ravana took the help of Mahiravana who was the king of pathala.
Lord Hanuman in order to protect Lord Ram and Lakshman formed a fortress
with his tail. But Mahiravana took the form of Vibeeshana and took Lord
Ram and Lakshman to pathala loka.
Hanuman entered pathala loka in search of Rama and Lakshmana.He found
out that to kill Mahiravana he had to extinguish 5 lamps at the same
time. So he took the Panchamukha form with Hanuman, Hayagriva, Narasimha,
Garuda and Varaha faces and extinguished the lamps. Mahiravana was
killed immediately.
The story apart, Sri Panchamukha Hanuman was the upasana deity of Sri
Ragavendra Tirtha, the saint of Mantralaya. The place where he meditated
on Panchamukha Hanuman is now known as Panchamukhi, wherein a temple for
Panchamukha Hanuman has been built.
There is also a shrine for Panchamukha Hanuman at Kumbakonam. This is
taken as the reference for the sculpturing of the Swami Murti in our
ashram.
Temple
at Tiruvallur
The
Statue of Panchamukha Hanuman at Tiruvallur is built with 40 feet green
granite stone. The five faces of the swami has unique values.
The five faces are described hereunder.
- The face towards the East is Sri Hanuman Mukha in
its original form. This face removes all blemishes of sin and
confers purity of mind.
- Sri Karala Ugravira Narasimha Swami, facing the
South, removes fear of enemies and confers victory.
- The face facing the west is that of Lord Sri
Mahavira Garuda and this face drives away evil spells, black magic
influences etc., and removes all poisonous effects in one's body.
- Sri Lakshmi Varaha murthi facing the North wards
off the troubles caused by bad influences of the planets and confers
all prosperity-Ashta Aishwarya.
- The Urdhva Mukha Facing upwards of Sri Hayagriva
Swami confers knowledge, victory, good wife and progeny.
To know more on the Temple Please visit : :http://www.panchamukha.org
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