Thudayoore and Thiruvasi Temple. Trichy.

1. Thudayoore: Siva temple. Devara Vaippu sthalam.
   
   
   The place is 10 kms from Trichy.
   
   
   
   Main Deity is Visha mangalaeswarar and his consort known as Veera mangalaeswri / Mangalanayaki amman.
   
   
   
   Importance: The temple is full of speciality and different from other temples. It is a small temple. It is considered as Vaippu sthalam.
   
   
   
   There is a big snake pit before we enter the temple. The place is also known as Veeshamteenda pathi, which means poison does not affect people living in that place.
   
   
   
   Within the premises we see Surya with his wife, Lakshmi Narayanar, Kalyana Sundareswarar, Subramanya with Valli Devasena, Brahma and Saraswathi. The speciality is all the gods are with their wife. Durga is vishnu durgai on lotus peetam with agni in hand. Thadangam of Durgai is different here.
   
   
   
   Digichandana Dakshina moorhy statue is really good and he is with Veena known as Digichandana in his hand. We see Surya Chandra on top of Dakshinamoothy to either side with chamaram.
   
   Kalyana Sundareswarar left hand is around his wife holding close to him and thumb of his feet is above the feet of ambal.
   
   
   About ½ kms from here we see Vadha muni stone for which oil abishekam is done on saturday, tuesday, full moonday and half moonday. The oil is distributed as prasadam to devotees. They say applying the oil any type pain subsides.
   
   
   
   
2. Tiruvasi:
   
   
   
   The temple is one of 275 Siva Devara Sthalam.
   
   
   The place is about 10 kms from Trichy.
   
   
   Main Deity is Matrarivaradeeswarar / Samivaneswarar / Brahmapureswarar and his consort Balambikaiamman / Balasundari.
   
   
   
   Teertham: Amalai aru, Panguni aru. Sthala Vruksham: Vanni.
   
   
   
   Importance: Brahma, Lakshmi, and Umadevi worshipped Siva of this place. The temple dates back to some 1500 years old. In this temple we see snake under the feet of Nataraja instead of muyalagan.
   
   
   
   The story related to the temple is a business man named Kamalan had no issues, so he was worshiping lord Siva. One day when he was going home from the temple, he heard child cry and he went back to see and found a small baby in the lotus flower. He named her Amalai.
   
   
   
   When the child grew, to the age of marriage he wanted her to be married to his brother in law. Amalai was a great devotee and wanted to marry Siva. Siva was pleased with her and he came to their house as Kamalan's brother in law and married Amalai. After the marriage they both left the house saying that they are going to the temple.
   
   
   
   After they left original brother in law of kamalan returned home, only then they realised something wrong has happened. They went to temple in search of Amalai.
   
   
   
   Knowing this, Amalai threw her anklet back and it turned to be a river and started flowing. Amalai was parvathy herself and Siva gave darshan to all the people with parvathi on his Rishaba vahana.
   
   
   Sundarar got a bag of gold from Siva in this place.
   
   
   
   We see Sundarar with golden talam in his hand. Sambandhar and Sundarar sang hymns on Siva of this place.