Ponniyin Selvan Varalaatru Peravai

Dear Sridhar

already some outstanding/mindboggling work has been done in this
direction

please try out the following sites

http://www.templenet.com
http://www.templepages.com
http://www.divyadesamonline.com
http://www.acharya.org/
http://www.dnetservices.com/templeinfo/cgi-bin/mainframe.php?
var=southindia
http://srivaishnavam.com/divyadesam108/108travel.htm
http://www.greenspun.com/boohoo/related.tcl?page_id=sv_divyadesams

as you may be aware there are 275 thevara padal petra sthalangal and
108 vainava sthalams sung by the alwars also known as
thirupathis/divyadesams

the breakup is as under

for thevara sthalams
Chola Naadu - North of Kaveri (63) Chola Naadu - South of Kaveri
(128)
Eezha Naadu (2) Paandya Naadu (14) Malai Naadu (1) Kongu Naadu
(7) Nadu Naadu (22) Tondai Naadu (32) Tuluva Naadu (1) Vada Naadu
(5)

for divyadesams
In Thondai Naadu 22 Divyadesams
In Chozha Naadu 40 Divyadesams
In Nadu Naadu 2 Divyadesams
In Pandiya Naadu 18 Divyadesams
In Malayala Naadu 13 Divyadesams
In Vada Naadu 11 Divyadesams
In Vinnulagam (not in Earth) 2 Divyadesams

i have made it a point to cover these sthalams over the past 2/3 years
and i have covered all the temples north of Sirkazhi and south of
Thanjavur - i have about 130 temples ( both thevara stalam and
divyadesams) yet to be covered between Sirkazhi and Thanjavur
(longitudinally - you will understand that this area is crowded with
temples as it formed the heart of the chola empire).

i feel that these temles have provided the bulk of our information on
our rich heritage and need to be preserved. some of these temples are
in a dilapitated condition and it is my desire tha we should do
something to revive their past glory primarily by educating those
residing in their vicinity about the neglected treasure in their
midst.

any way the response is getting too lengthy and i will stop here for
the moment

Dear Sridhar

happy to note that you are delighted with those sites as i expected
you to be!!! really hats off to those who have put in an enormous amt
of work to build these sites. i hope our other members also get to
visit these sites.

i would certainly like to join in the uzhavaarappani

but i feel that we need to do something beyond that - we need to get
the local population to go to the temple as without the patronage of
the local population such temples cannot survive - that needs some
sort of interaction with the local population - some more thinking
needs to be done in this regard