{"id":7411,"date":"2018-05-06T19:24:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T11:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/?p=7411"},"modified":"2018-05-06T19:24:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T11:24:13","slug":"chandra-baghawan-moon-thingalur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/?p=7411","title":{"rendered":"Chandra Baghawan (MOON) – Thingalur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Main Deity-\u00a0Kailasanathar <\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Goddess –\u00a0Periyanayakiamman <\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Holy tree – Plantain tree and Vilva tree <\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Theertham – Chandra Theertham and River cauvery <\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
History: <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Thingalur is the sthalam for Chandran.Thingal in Tamil means Chandran and hence the name Thingalur.Chandran is the Lord of Kadaga Rasi and he faces the South-East direction.The Adi Devatha is water; prathyathi Devatha is Gowri; his colour is white and his vahana is white horse. The grain associated with him is paddy, rice; the flower \u2013 white arali; fabric \u2013 white cloth; gem \u2013 pearl;rice – Curdrice.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0The Devas and asuras were churning the paarkadal using Mandira Malai and the snake Vasuki.\u00a0The asuras held the head portion of the snake and the devas, the tail portion. When Lord Vishnu was distributing the Amrutham amongst the devas, at the behest of Sukracharya, one of\u00a0the asuras in the guise of a deva consumed the nectar. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 Suryan and Chandran noticed this and complained to Lord Vishnu. \u00a0An angry Vishnu used his chakrayudham (discus) to cut the asura into two and threw them away. The head joined with a snake\u2019s body to become Rahu Bhagavan. The body portion kept growing because the asura had consumed Amrutham. \u00a0This later joined with the head of a snake and became Kethu Bhagavan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 Now, Rahu and Kethu did not forgive Suryan and Chandran. \u00a0Rahu went after Chandran and started consuming him. \u00a0It is here that Chandran prayed to Lord Siva and got his blessings. Shiva blessed Chandran with the power to grow back to full size in 15 days after being consumed by Rahu. \u00a0That is why we have the waxing and waning moon. \u00a0Shiva also blessed Chandran by adorning Chandran on his forehead so that anyone who prays Shiva will have to pray Chandran.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 Another story for waxing and Wanning period of chandran is,King Dakshan gave all his 27 daughters in marriage to Chandran. Those 27 wives of Chandran are the 27 stars in Tamil Calendar. As Chandran\u2019s favourite was Rohini and he spent most of his time with her, the others complained about this to their father. King Dakshan asked Chandran to treat all of them equally, which Chandran refused. \u00a0An angry Dakshan, cursed Chandran that all his beauty and brightness will disappear slowly everyday. A worried Chandran, on the advice of Lord Brahma, then performed penance on Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva appeared before him and adorned his forehead with the crescent-shaped Chandran. Shiva then came to be known as Chandrasekaran also. \u00a0He blessed Chandran to regain his beauty and brightness slowly day by day. \u00a0This waxing period of the moon is called Sukla Paksham or Valarpirai. \u00a0Chandran gets back all his beauty and attains full brightness on Full moon day or pournami. \u00a0From Pournami to the full moon day he again starts loosing his beauty and brightness till the New moon day or Ammavasai. \u00a0This waning period of the moon is called Krishna Paksham or Theipirai.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Main Deity- Kailasanathar Goddess – Periyanayakiamman Holy tree – Plantain tree and Vilva tree Theertham – Chandra Theertham and River cauvery History: Thingalur is the sthalam for Chandran.Thingal in Tamil means Chandran and hence the name Thingalur.Chandran is the Lord of Kadaga Rasi and he faces the South-East direction.The Adi Devatha is water; prathyathi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7412,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions\/7412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}