TIRU NNAVAI (TIRUNAVAYAVA)

Perumal - TIRUNAVAI MUKUNDAN / Nava Mukundan
Thayar - Malar Mangai Nachchiyar
Theertham - Senkamala Saras , Vimananm - Veda Vimanam
Location - Near Kalikota - Malaappuram Kerala
Alwars - Nammalwar , Tirumanagialwar

Importance - The name Tirunaavaai because nine yogis offered worship here and attained moksham. Also Lakshmi and Gajendra worshipped Vishnu here with lotus flowers from a Sankamala saras. With two devotees using flowers from the same source, supply dwindled. Then Gajendra appealed to Vishnu, who took Lakshmi by his side on the same throne and accepted worship.

TIRU VITHUVAKKODU - another - Vithuvakkodeeswaram

Perumal - UYYAVANDA PERUMAL / ABHAYAVANDA
Thayar - Padmapaani Nachchiyar
Theertham - Chakra teertham, Vimanam - Tatva KanchanaVimanam
Location - Near TRISUR,
Alwars - Kulasekhar Alwar

Importance - Vishnu appeared in four forms here (Vyuhavataram - Pradyumna, Aniruddha, Sankharshana and Para Vasudeva) in response to worship by Ambarishan and was worshipped by the Pandavas here. Ambarishan is said to have obtained salvation here. Of the four images of Vishnu seen here, Yuddhishtra is said to have worshipped the one in the center, Bhima the one on the left, Arjuna the one on the west, and Nakula and Sahadeva the other. There is another temple in Karur (on the Chennai Tiruchi railroad), by name Vithuvakkodeeswaram, enshrining Abhaya Pradhana Ranganathar and Ranganayaki, also considered to be a Divya Desam by the same name, built in an acre and has shrines to Anjaneyar and Garudalwar.