Chinnamanur

Chinnamanur
—  city  —
Chinnamanur Location of Chinnamanur in Tamil Nadu and India
Coordinates	9°50′N 77°23′E / 9.83°N 77.38°E / 9.83; 77.38Coordinates: 9°50′N 77°23′E / 9.83°N 77.38°E / 9.83; 77.38
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District(s)	Theni
Population	38,327 (2001[update])
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Area • Elevation	• 375 metres (1,230 ft)

Chinnamanur is a city and a municipality in Theni district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

Geography

Chinnamanur is located at 9°50′N 77°23′E / 9.83°N 77.38°E / 9.83; 77.38.^[1] It has an average elevation of 375 metres (1,230 ft).

Demographics

As of 2001^[update] India census,^[2] Chinnamanur had a population of more than 40000. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Chinnamanur has an average literacy rate of 72%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with male literacy of 79% and female literacy of 65%. 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Historical Evidence

Copper inscriptions, which are all taken from Chinnamanur in the British period, are available in London museum^[which?].

Chinnamanur, stands back to a very historic period when the king of Madurai, Thiru. Rajasimeshwaran came to this land. It is a tradition in India where Lord Shiva is worshipped by presenting cow's milk on the Shiva lingam and performing the rituals. King Rajasimeshwaran being no exception had been performing the same kind of rituals. Once when a milkman was bringing milk to the kings place, he was hindered by a root in the ground, which was irregular in shape, almost like a rock. The man fell down spilling all the milk on the root. He continued bringing milk the next day and the same incident took place. This continued for some days together. The man planned to chop down the root and ran an axe over it. The moment he stuck it he found the root bleeding. Immediately after that he was stupefied seeing a long, swift and a luminous light with great intensity from the sky to the land in the same place of the root. The milkman ran to the king and told about the incident which took place in the midway. The king, a very pure devotee of Lord Shiva, became exuberant and realized that it is some play of the almighty and rushed to the place. The king was astonished seeing the vibrant energy of the lord standing from sky to land and raised his hands above his head, pleading in the namaste posture told, "Siva perumane". "Oh lord, you are so energetic, vibrant, luminous and I am flabbergasted looking at you. All my power and potentials are underneath your foot. Eshwara, how can I worship this marvelous, spectacular appearance of yours. Kindly come down to the level of common people as we always seek your eternal bliss". By these humble words of the king, Lord Shiva comes down to the same height of King Rajasimeshwaran in the form of lingam, as worshiped everywhere. The king becomes so glad that the Lord himself has accepted his worship and hugs the lingam tightly. As soon as he hugs the lingam, the love and warmth melts the lingam and the ornaments worn by the king gets embossed on it. This embossed ornaments are seen even today. A temple was then constructed by the king with the lingam as the deity in the middle, named as 'Thiru Poolanandeshwarar Sivakami Amman temple', Sivakami wife of lord Shiva who is commonly known as Parvati. Even today, in the temple, the lingam is traditionally worshiped with deeba aradanai (tradition of showing lighted lamp to the idol). The aradhanai shows the reflections of the embossed ornaments of king Rajasimeshwaran on the lingam. The deity has various other names like, 'Palkonda naadar' meaning, the lord who asked for milk; 'Alavodu alavanavar' meaning, the lord who came down for the humble request of a true devotee; ' Tazhuva Kudaindavar' meaning, the lord who was compassionate to the hug of an honest king and a true devotee. The deity is also named after the king as Rajasimeshwarar. This article is published to make many devotees to seek the bliss of Lord Shiva and also for tourists and travelers around the world. There are so many other evidences of Shiva in India, among which Chinnamanur is a very little example. Some famous churches in Chinnamanur are, Roman Catholic Church, Ponnanagar, Bethel Church India, PTR Channel road and Tamil Nadu Pentecostal Mission, Building society.

The Muslims: the mosques are 3 in number.the main is big mosque(paeriya pallivasal),cinna masjid (cinna pallivasal), and the samikulam pallivasal. Muslims living there peacefully. Before 30 years it seems not many of them were educated and enrolled in the social acivities like politics and doing a halal business(as per the norms of the islamic rule example Muslims normally won't do finance business, since it is Haram and not halal). but at present, there are enormous amount of people of this particular community becomes educated.almost they are engineers and working in India and in abroad. People of this particular community is Rowthers and they obviously follow the Hanafi islamic school of jurisprudence. This Particular community people were living throughout chinnamanur. particularly in k.k.kulam south Muslim street, and the people living in vadakku thaeru.and in saamikulam.

References

1. ^ Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Chinnamanur
2. ^ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2004-06-16. http://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999. Retrieved 2008-11-01.