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SrI Swamin namaskaram:

as you quoted, at my adiyens native place, there is a temple
for Lord Ranganatha which was built by earlier kings. There
HE gives sEvai as Abhaya PrathAna Ranganatha Swamy. Only in this
temple(as per adiyens knowledge), Ranganathar in reclining
posture shows HIS right hand as Abhaya to MArkandeya maharishi.

The legend goes like this:

When mArkandeya maharishi was doing tapas, he was disturbed by
activities of dhusta arakkargal. So he went to thiruppArkadal
to seek refuge from our emperumAn. As we all know, our emperumAn
is fond of saving our bhakthAs who fell refuge to HIM, on the
reclining posture itself, i.e, reclining on AdhisEsha HE shows 
HIS right hand as ABHAYAM to mArkandeya maharishi to show that
HE is there for saving the bhakthAs.

The posture is like: you can think of SrI Ranganathar at 
SrI rangam, instead of placing the right hand under HIS head,
HE stretches HIS right hand and shows ABHAYA mudra to 
mArkandeya maharishi by reclining on adhisEsha itself.
Under HIS abhayam, one can see mArkandeya maharishi is sitting
with nervous to seek the emperumAns protection. From the navel
Lord Brahma was sitting. Thayar is Sri RanganAyaki thAyar at
separate sannidhi.

The one more beauty of this is that, since emperumAn turns
little aside to show HIS abhayam to mArkandeya maharishi,
AdhisEsha feels disturbed as "who is disturbing our great
karumA mughil vannan, neela megham, shyamalan from HIS reclining
posture" and adhisEsha also fully turns towards right to look
at who is disturbing the Lord RanganAthar. This sEva can be
seen on throught out the day. One never feels satisfied looking
on HIM at all time.

This beautifull sEva can be seen in that temple. Thats why
there HE is called as Abhaya prathAna Ranganatha Swamy. THe 
perumAl is as beauty as Lord RanganAthar at SrI Rangam, situated
at the very near banks of River Amaravathi at Karur.

One more greatness of this sthalam is that, there is a 
elanthai tree near ChakkarathAlwar which never sleeps (i.e)
it will produce Elanthai fruits throughout the year and local
people called it as "UrangA elanthai" as like "UrangA puli" tree
at Alwar Thirunagari.

This temple is taken by Govt. Hindu Endowsment Board and is
associated with the AbhimAna Sthalam ThAnthondri perumAl,
Sri Kalyana Venkata Ramana Swamy at KARUR. Adiyen requests
if one happens to come across SrI Rangam, or near by areas,
also visit this sthalam and enjoy the beauty of this sEvai
and get HIS blessings. HE is there to give abhayam from all
the evils that come across one's life.

SrImathe rAmAnujAya namaha:
SrI Ranganayaki sametha Ranganatha Parabrahmane namaha:
adiyen,
senthil.B









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