Sri Subrahmanya Swami Devasthanam, Tiruchendur, South India
 
Tiruchendur seashore temple
Tiruchendur seashore temple of Lord Senthil Andavar

The Teerthas

Nine teerthas or sacred bathing places are mentioned in the stala purāna. A bath in the sea itself is one, described as of great spiritual merit. Two miraculous manifestations are recorded, and they are one, that Brahma having one of his heads nipped away by Śiva got it restored after a bath here; and that Angasundari, a Pandya princess born with the face of a horse, got her beautiful face after a bath at the Vathanarambha Teertha.

Twenty-four stone pillars with inscriptions thereon set up at intervals on the beach mark the special significances recorded therein to bathe at those particular spots.

  1. Mukaramba Tîrtha
  2. Tevayānai Tîrtha;
  3. Lakshmi Tîrtha;
  4. Siddhar Tîrtha;
  5. Ashta Dikpāla Tîrtha;
  6. Gayatri Tîrtha;
  7. Savitri Tîrtha;
  8. Saraswati Tîrtha;
  9. Iravada Tîrtha;
  10. Tirusuli Tîrtha;
  11. Valli Tîrtha;
  12. Durga Tîrtha;
  13. Ganana Tîrtha;
  14. Satya Tîrtha;
  15. Dharma Tîrtha;
  16. Muni Tîrtha;
  17. Deva Tîrtha;
  18. Pavanāsa Tîrtha;
  19. Skanda Pushkarani Tîrtha;
  20. Seeta Tîrtha;
  21. Dasa Gangas Tîrtha;
  22. Gandhamathana Tîrtha;
  23. Matru Tîrtha; and
  24. Pitru Tîrtha.