Thiruchittrambalam 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 The foremost of Shivakshetram in TN which houses the Nataraja form of Lord Shiva as Adi Murthi.
Thiru -Sri, Chit - Conscience, Ambalam -stage. It denotes Lord Shiva who dances in the stage of our conscience.
It is also called as ‘Kanakasabai’ meaning the golden assembly.
This is the place Lord Shiva performed his Ananda Thandavam to Sages Patanjali and Vyagrapadhar.
@HinduMediaWiki This is also the place where Natyashastra originated. Lord Shiva assigned the entire administration to 3000 Thillai Vaazh Andhanar who were none but his own Ganas. This is continuing even today with generations after generations, they are continuing their service
It was here ‘Periya Puranam’ the divine literature on 63 Saivite saints (Nayanmars) was blessed by Sekkizhar. The Lord himself initiated it by giving the first word ‘Ulangelam’ - ‘In the whole world’.
This list is endless and his divine Leelas are endless
Thiruchittrambalam 🙏🏻
The current name ‘Chidambaram’ is derived from ‘Chittrambalam’.
It is also called ‘Thillai’ and a divine place where several of his devotees or Nayanmars attained Mukti including Nandanar. T is also one of the pancha butha stalams representing the cosmic form or Akash. Others are Ekambareswarar in Kanchipuram (Soil), Thiruvannamalai (fire)...
Jambukeshwarar in Tiruvanaikaval (water) and Kalahasthi (wind)
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