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STHALA PURANAM

This temple which is a part of Nava Tirupathi is situated in the Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu. This is the avatara sthalam of Sri Nammazhwar. Sri Nammazhwar is found below the tamarind tree sitting in Yoga Nillai. Emperumaan, Sriman Narayanan says to Brahma that before producing him, he came to Porunai river and lived there. And said him to keep this temple as "Aadhi temple" (first and main temple) he should worship him. Like this he gives teaches (Ubhadesam) to Brahma as a Guru (Teacher) since, Sriman Narayanan acts as a Guru for Brahma, this sthalam is called "Kurugoor". "Kuru" in Sanskrit also means do some thing . Since, Narayanam asks Brahma to do the tapas and workship Him at this place , this sthalam came to be called "Kurugoor". The Moolavar, Aadhinarayanan has very big thirumeni and he appeared out of his own volition and is therefore a Svayambhu Moorthy . The feet of the Moolavar comes up inside from the Earth. Devendran - Indiran finally was freed from his saapam (saapa vimochanam) after worshipping the Aadhinadha perumal. He got the saapam from his parents because he did not treat them with all the respects that they were entitled to . At this sthalam , Lakshmanan (brother of Sri Ramar and Aadhi Sesha avathAram) did prathistai himself as "Tamarid tree" and in that tree Emperumaan lives in Bramacharya stage. Once periyapiratti comes there and asked Narayanan to marry her. At that time, Narayanan converts her as a flower and adorned Her on his ThirumEni .

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