This is an ancient Vishnu temple about 15 minutes (11 Km) from Uthirakosamangai. You can do both together. It is a Divya Desam temple venerated in the Naalayira Prapantham and closely associated with the Ramayanam. Sri Raman spent 3 nights here contemplating the invasion of Lanka resting his head on a pillow of the Dharbai grass. Hence the name of this place. The legends again speak of a coastal temple but it now lies at least 5 km from the shore, suggesting that the sea indeed receded around here.
Again it is the end result of a thousand years of temple building with a Pandian core. The Cholas, Vijayanagar, Nayakkar and the Sethupathis contributed in their own way. There is some evidence that the Jaffna kings of northern Sri Lanka also contributed to this in the 12th century. Beautiful temple.
Visited August 2019. Base Rameswaram.
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