Anaipatty & Siddhar Malai. Enchanting solitude
Next to the Kuruvithurai temple, there is a small road that seems to end in paddy fields. But it is not. The metalled road turns into sand road for about a km, and it becomes metal road again.
The road is just wide enough for a lorry, so if a lorry or a tractor comes opposite your car needs to go beyond the end of the road and into the roadside wild growth. No public transport available in this side.
With the far-end nagamalai hills running parallel to the road, at about a km distance, on the left, and the vaigai river on the right, the farm road itself is a treat. You would feel far far away from the crowded city life.
Some 8 kms from Kuruvithurai temple, the road leads to a minor dam across river Vaigai. The village near the dam (Anai) is called Anaipatti. There is a Aanjaneya temple on the river front with lot of sand filled open space between the river and the temple.
The temple itself have legendary story and datas back to around 300 years. It”s a siddha place where the Lord Anjaneya is shaped out of a ”Suyambu”. Legend has it that Pandavas lived in the nearby hill during ”Vanavas” and Bhima came to this place to get water from the river. The River Vaigai is then known as ”Vehavathy”.
The nearby hill is about a KM away and is locally known as Siddhar Malai or Mahalinga Malai. The Pandava cave and an ancient temple is still there in the hill. It is under the control of Archeology Dept., Govt. of India. The hill is rocky and looking from the Anjaneya temple, one big rock block sits on the side of the hill like a ”Nandi”.
The temple is not on the top of the hill and is not visible from the ground. The rocky terrain makes the climb difficult and encouraging for rock climbers. No clear route available on the hills. There were a few white arrow marks painted on some of the rocks. If you don”t follow it, you will surely loose the way.
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hai this is rama krishna prabu , i m citizen of this village ,my village basicaly most beautiful ,and the have big dam, anjaneyar temple, this temple lunced nearest by dam, and so nice picnic plce in my diristic(dindugal) and more then people visit this village at every sauterday, anaipatti is very good tourist place at nilakottai so u all plz visit my village
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RAMA KRISHNA PRABU
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Hallo dears my name is balasubramanian.j ,i am citizen of India my village is anaipatty minor dam across river Vaigai. The village near the dam (Anai) is called Anaipatti..anaipatty is natural place one side looking to river ,one area is all different of trees,one area is flowers all verities all export. Aanjaneya temple very power full god .tamil nadue al dist pepole is coming .anaipatty is center place,air port near 35km madurai,20km near train kodiroad .near by city is nilakkotti now anaipatty is tourist place