Visiting Athivaradhar

With three temporary bus stands created, 2500 special police troops deployed and most part of the city traffic diverted,and several small special busses plying to the temple outskirts to enable easy navigation to the same; Kanchipuram, the city of thousand temples wears a festival-coloured look for 48 days(1 Jul 19 to 17 Aug 19) Athi-Varadhar Athi(Tamil)= Fig tree, Varadhan(Tamil) or Vardhan= one of the names of Lord Vishnu. Full of history and mystery, lost and found decades ago, underwater for about 350 years, "Athivaradhar" is the main diety of the "Sri Varadharaja Perumal Temple", Kanchipuram. Wondering why is it Varadhar rather than Varadhan? In Tamilnadu, people add an "ar" as a suffix to any name to make it more respectful. That's the reason why the Traveling Ticket Examiners(TTEs) are better known as TTR(TTE+"ar") instead of TTE. And also the names viz. Vardhan, Vandhna, Parshuram are more no...