Parthasarathy Temple, Triplicane

Want to use this image?

Please copy & paste this embed code onto your site:

<a  href="http://www.veethi.com/parthasarathy-temple-triplicane/PH13682"><img alt="Chennai Photos" src="http://www.veethi.com/watermark.php?path=images/city-images/fullsize/Chennai-13682.jpg" alt="parthasarathy-temple-triplicane"/></a><br/>This photo of <a href="http://www.veethi.com/chennai/PL744">Chennai</a>  is courtesy of veethi

Images must be attributed to veethi.com.

Added On : Sep 14, 2012

914 Views

Listed By

gowreesan

View Listed Images

Description

The Parthasarathy Temple (Tamil: பார்த்தசாரதி கோயில்) is an 8th century Hindu Vaishnavite temple dedicated to the god Krishna, located at Triplicane, Chennai, India. The temple is glorified in the Divya Prabandha, the early medieval Tamil literature canon of the Alvar saints from the 6th–9th centuries CE and is classified as among the 108 Divya Desams dedicated to Vishnu. The name 'Parthasarathy', in Sanskrit, means the 'charioteer of Arjuna', referring to Krishna's role as a charioteer to Arjuna in the epic Mahabaratha. It was originally built by the Pallavas in the 8th century by king Narasimhavarman I. The temple has four of the incarnations or avatars of Vishnu: Narasimha, Rama, Varaha and Krishna.