Pilgrimage -KUMBAKONAM,Tamil nadu

I was on a visit to temples around Kumbakonam in Tamil nadu . These temples were built around 10th century as part of revival of Hinduism to check the spread of Jainism and Buddhism.

It was called the Bakthi movement. Many saints both Saivaits and vaisnavaits spear headed the movement rebuilding the temples and reviving the traditions of these temples, preaching to the people about the importance of faith through language and literature which rulers of the times like Cholas and Pallavas had promoted .
In the north, Chaitnya and others took the lead.
So the temples I went visiting are called in tamil as “ Padal Petra Thiruththalangal” ie these places had the significance of being sung in praise of the place and the deity by the 12 Alwars (for vaisnavism) and 64 Nayanmars (saivism ) and the God is said to have appeared to people those who had faith .
The names of these temples are
Ramasamy temple, Sarangapani temple, Kumbeswarar temple, Nageswara Swami temple, Patteswaram, Darasuram, Thiru Shakthi Mutram, Uppiliappan koil, Nachiyar koil.
Due to recent rains in the state, all the ponds and rivers were full. Lotus and Lillies in the ponds added beauty to the places.

Many French tourists were seen in these temples .It was nice to see them show so much interest in our culture and architecture