More sacred than the Ganges (Waterbodies of Chennai - 26)

The legend states that this holy temple tank in Tiruvallur is more sacred than the Great Ganges. Known as Hritabhanasini Pushkarani, this tank is the holy teerth of the Pallava era Veeraraghava Perumal temple.

The tank is incredibly large. It covers an area of around 7 acres. Unfortunately, it is rare to find this tank entirely filled with water.

This is one of the most important landmarks of Tiruvallur, a site with so many religious places. In the middle of the tank, the granite mandap is located.

To know complete details about Veeraraghava Perumal temple, click here.

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Note: As per a report, there were about 650+ waterbodies in the Chennai region till the 1980s. Today, only a fraction of them exist. And most of those surviving waterbodies hardly have water, and even some of them that have water have been poorly shrunk. In Chennai, there are tank roads without tanks nearby and lake-view roads without lakes. There is a high possibility that even the few waterbodies we have today might vanish soon. I decided to visit the currently surviving waterbodies of Chennai and its suburbs and write about them in my blog as a series.

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