Sri Sempon Arangar Perumal Temple Location
As one can see from the map, Sri Sempon Arangar Perumal Temple Divya Desam is located 150 km east of Srirangam which is close to the town of Mayiladuthurai. These are the 9th, 10th and 11th of Divya Desams of the Thirunangur Eleven.
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Sri Sempon Arangar Perumal Temple – Sthalapuranam
After Ravana was killed, Rama returned from Lanka. On his way back, he stopped here and had a golden cow donated to a brahmin as advised by Trutanethra muni. The brahmin in return constructed this temple using the gold and hence the name of the Divya Desam.
Sri Sempon Arangar Perumal Temple – Special features
The Lord is known as Sempon Arangar or Perarulalan or Hemarangan and the universal mother is known as Allimamalar Natchiyar. The vimana is ‘kanaka vimana’ and the theertham is ‘hema’ and kanaka theertham. It is said that the Lord here is the same as Azhagiya Manavallan or Uraiyur. This Lord also participates in the joint Garuda Sevai on Thai Amavasya day.
Mangalasasanam
Thirumangai Alwar has sung about this Divya Desam in his Periya Thirumozhi (1298 -1307). Alwar says everyone in this world sang the multiple names of Perarulalan who stands like a dark cloud in the Semponsey temple surrounded by tall buildings and accompanied by Peria Piratti and Bhumidevi.
That is how Alwar says he is saved. Taking the small but perfect Vamana form, measuring the worlds with His divine feet in Mahabali’s ‘yagasala,’ resting on Thiruparkadal for Nitya Suris to serve Him, wearing the gem-encrusted crown, He resides in the Semponsey temple in the middle of Thirunangur.
Alwar says he is saved because of the Lord. After bridging the ocean, the Lord went to Trikuta Hills in Lanka and destroyed the city with his arrows. The Brahmins who have the four Vedas as their only wealth live in Thirunangur where the semponsey temple is.
It is by worshipping the Lord with Periya Piratti that I have found an end to my suffering.
