Why Guruvayur is not a
divya desam?
Collected by
P.R.Ramachander
Divya desams are
those temples where Azhvars
have done Mangala Sasanam (In
simple words, have sung about the temple)
. Kerala.
There are
13 Divya desams in Kerala. Out of the 12 Azhvars only two azhvars have visted
these temples,One of them is Nammazhvar
whose mother came from Kerala and the other
is Thirumangai Azhvar who has
sung in eighty of the 108
Divya desams.
In one of the
notes published in
Oppiliappan web site it is mentioned that Azhvars
did not sing about any temple where God is there without the Goddess .Guruvayur being a temple
where God is there
without the Goddess , they did
not visit that temple. I checked up and
found that in all the
13 Divya desams of Kerala ,
goddess is also consecrated in those
temples.
I thought this
information would be interesting to my friends.
