Thirumanimada Koil is traditionally enumerated as number 29 among the 108 Divya Desams — the sacred abodes of Sri Maha Vishnu sung by the Alvars.
This place is also one of the Thirunangoor divya desams. This is about five miles from Sirkazhi. The moolavar here is known as Narayanan (Nanda vilakku). He is seen in a sitting posture facing east. The utsava murthy is also known as Narayana. The Thayar is known as Pundarikavalli. The theertham is Indra pushkarini, also known as Rudra pushkarini. The vimanam is Pranava vimanam. God is said to have appened in response to the prayers of Indra and Ekadasa
This story is related in Padma puranam in the portion dealing with Palasavana kshetram. Agasthiya mahamuni is said to have related this story to King Uparisaravasu. Thirunangoor is in Palasavanam. Once upon a time, Palasavanam was full of jack fruit trees, mango groves and plantain trees. Besides, there were many huge trees providing shade. Trees with flowers like the shambagam and other creepers were in abundance. A number of Devas, sages and rishis stayed in this place. One such sage who lived in this place was Mathangar. He was all the time praying to Lord Krishna. It was said that in Kiruta yugam, Rudra plucked off the fifth head of Brahma. He thus committed Brahmahathy. In order to get rid of this curse, He went, accompanied by Parvathi, to Gokarna kshetram and prayed to Lord Vishnu. As a reward for his deep penance, Lord Vishnu appeared before Him. Rudra then asked Him as to how He could get rid of the Brahmahathy dosham. Narayana then asked Him to go to Nagapuri (Nangoor) in Palasavanam and perform an aswameda yaga. Vishnu promised Him that He would appear before him then. Rudra accordingly went to
Nangoor and the eleven Siva temples in and around Nangoor are said to be the eleven archa forms in which Siva manifested Himself at the behest of Lord Vishnu. Even as there were three more days for the yaga to be completed, Vishnu came in a chariot with the Vedas as horses, Brahma as the sarathy and Pranava as the vimanam and appeared before Rudra on the banks of Indra pushkarini. The God was accompanied by Sridevi and Bhoodevi. He was in Padmasana. He blessed Siva and Siva got rid of the Brahmahathy dosham. As Rudra was guided in doing this penance by Madanga Rishi, Rudra came to be known as Madangeswarar. As Rudra performed His yaga on the banks of the pushkarini, the pushkarini came to be known as Rudra pushkarini. Later,as Lord Indra also stayed on the banks of the Rudra pushkarini for a long time and used to have his daily bath in the pushkarini, it came to be also known as Indra pushkarini.
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