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 Temple info -3785 கோயில் தகவல்-3785 Saneeswara Bhagwan Temple, Sholavandan, Madurai Saneeswara Bhagwan Temple is a Hindu Temple dedicated to Lord Saturn located at Sholavandan Town in Madurai District of Tamilnadu. Legends Years ago, a garden of flowers was established in Sholavandan for pujas in Anjaneya and Siddhi Vinayaka temple. Plants of many varieties of flowers as Parijatham, Nagalingam and Mavalingam were grown here. They had herbal characteristics also. Residents in the Agraharam were maintaining this garden. In course of time due to lack of care, the garden disappeared giving room to bushes sheltering poisonous creatures. Threatened by this development, 40 years ago, people took up cleaning the place. When a young man was clearing around the Mavalinga tree, he felt something underneath. When he dug three feet further, he found an idol of Sani Bhagwan standing on his Crow vehicle. People thronged the place. With the gracious blessings of the Pontiffs of Sri Sringeri Shara...

Temple info -3079 கோயில் தகவல்-3079 Shanishwara Temple (Navagraha Temple), Moratandi, Villupuram Navagraha Temple is a Hindu Temple dedicated to Navagrahas located in Moratandi Village near Union Territory of Pondicherry in Villupuram District of Tamilnadu. The Temple covers an area of 2 acres. The main deity Shaniswara Bhagwan is about 27 feet tall and each Navagraha idol is 15 feet tall. All Navagrahas are huge idols with their vahanas. Among them, Surya the sun god is present at the centre who resembles his importance compared with Navagrahas. Navagraha means nine planets, and thus Navagraha temples are a congregation of temples which are devoted to the nine celestial bodies according to Hindu astronomy, namely, Surya (Sun), Chandra(Moon), Mangala (Mars), Budha (Mercury), Brihaspati (Jupiter), Shukra (Venus), Shani (Saturn), Rahu (North Lunar Node) and Ketu (South Lunar Node). So, the Navagraha temples are a cluster of nine separate temples, each of which is an abode of one of the N...