Angaraka Teerth (Waterbodies of Chennai - 32)

It is really magnificent...covers an area of about 2 acres....indeed very deep...across the four directions, it has so many granite steps to reach down...in the middle, probably there stood a granite mandapa, now having a few granite steps left...still, it looks so beautiful...the adjoining temple is around 1000 years old...so, it should also have historical significance...there are so many good things about this tank....but it has just one problem...no water...and poor maintenance.

Agasteeswara temple in Villivakkam locality is believed to have been built by Kulotunga Chola in the 11th century CE. The temple has a huge tank called Angaraka Teerth. It would have been such an awesome sight if it had been maintained properly.

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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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