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Subject: Divya Desam series - Ayodhya
(Tiruayodhi)
AYODHYA (Tiruayodhi)
This Divya shetram is 5
Kms from Faisabhad Railway station on the Mughalsarai Lucknow
route in Uttar
Pradesh.
Tiru Ayodhi is the first
among the seven Mukthi shetrams. The moolavar is Lord Rama also
called Chakravarthi Tirumagan in a seated posture. The Thayar is Sita and the
Theertham is Sarayu Nadhi and the Vimanam Pushkala
Vimanam.
The legend has it that
Lord Vishnu
took out Ayodhya, part of Vaikuntam and presented it to Manu the eldest son of
Brahma, who brought it to Bhooloka and placed it on the banks of Sarayu River.
The original temples, on which Azhwars have composed Divya prabhandam, ware
destroyed by invaders, and now there are shrines for Ranganathar and Rama in
Ammaji Temple on the banks of the river Sarayu.
Azhwar
Mangalaasaasanam:
Periyazhwar ? 312, 314,
316, 321, 325, 399
Kulasekharaazhwar ? 724,
725, 741, 748
Thondarapadiazhwar ?
920
Tirumangai Azhwar ?
1875
Nammaazhar
? 3497 (pasuram number as found in Naalaayira Divya prabhandam)
Om Namo Narayana
Padmashri Sampathkumar
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