And The Stones of Uttiramerur said .........
UTTIRAMERUR , near Kanchipuram , is a busy small town now , with all features of a typical Tamilnadu mofussil layout- full of shops, dust, loud voices, floral and frying aromas , white heat , sweaty brows , ox carts, forests of Dish Antennae, flex-posters announcing weddings/ deaths and kuthupaattu beats throbbing from public transport vehicles as well as multicolored little shrines....in short, full of life. It might very well have been just as lively a millenium ago too. For starters, it was a good enough sized settlement for Pallava Nandivarman II to have built a three tiered shrine to Vishnu in His three poses - standing , seated and reclining. Just like the grand one in Kanchipuram. The SundaraVarada Perumal Temple spread across two acres has undergone additions and alterations in succeeding centuries , making it a magnificent monument . Not content with the three main Vishnu alters , there are additional alters to Vishnu giving anugraha to Arjuna , Nakula and Sahadeva a