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There was a nice writeup about Shrivilliputtur in the online edition
of Dinamani at 
http://www.dinamani.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=DNU20070808204457&Title=Spiritual+Page&lTitle=Bu%C1Lm&Topic=0&dName=No+Title&Dist=
Bhagavathas who are comfortable in Tamil can visit this site and read. 
For those who are not here it is in English:Hundreds of years ago, the
area from Shrivilliputtur to the Western Ghats was covered by dense
forest and there was a forest of Shenbaga trees here. A Rakshasa
'Shenbagasura.'performed severe penance for many years and got many
boons. Since his penance was done here, this place is called
'Shenbagavanam' even today.
Emboldened by the power of the boons, he harmed all the sadhus and
rishis. 
They took refuge in ShrimanNarayana and he sent his Sudarshanazhvar to
kill Shenbagasuran. 
Chakrathazhvar did as he was bid, but since Shenbagasuran had done a
lot of penance, Chakrathazhvar was afflicted by brhamahathi. 
So, he was rendered powerless - he protested to his Lord and Shri
MahaVishnu called upon Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswathi to come to this
area and help remove Sudarshanazhvar's brahmahathi. 
The Three holy rivers descended to the Earth and removed
Chakrathazhvar's brahmahathi and filled the tank in Shrivilliputtur. 
This tank is still known as 'Mukkulam' since the three holy rivers
filled it. 
Mahavishnu resided to the east of this tank, thereby fulfilling the
wish of the holy rivers as Vatapatrashayee and took the same form as
in Shreevaikuntam.  
But, no one new of His presence, since the whole area was covered with
dense forest. 
Then one day, two hunters Villi and Kantan came hunting. 
And .....
Everyone knows the story from here -
Kantan was killed by a tiger and Villi was looking for him. He was
very tired and slept under a tree and the Lord appeared in his dreams
and showed him where he was and bade him to build a temple for him. 
He also showed Villi the treasure that was buried under the tree under
which he was sleeping. 
(There are two versions here- one says that Kantan came back and
helped Villi, and the other says that Villi was told by the Lord that
the incident happened so that Villi would come to this  area looking
for Kantan) 
Villi woke up and found the Lord. He built the temple and the little
town around it. This town was known as Villiputtur after Villi and
Shrivilliputtur since the Lord resided here. 
Hundreds of years later, Vishnuvchittar incarnated here and Goda
appeared as his daughter.

And the rest is, of course, is well known by all devotees. 
 
Father and daughter worshipped Vatapathrasayee and Goda loved and
married the Lord and even today they give darshan in this town as
Rangamannar and Andal to their beloved devotees.

Andal thiruvadigale charanam

Shubha








 
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