− | Thiru Karambanur, unlike its counterparts in South India is small in size though unmatched in antiquity. <blockquote>''"Several puranic accounts bring out the importance of this Kshetra without a Shikhara. The temple is endowed with such rare merits that it has a reason for its prominence and there are several stories enumerating the same", says Prof. S. Narayanan.''<ref name=":0" /></blockquote> | + | Thiru Karambanur, unlike its counterparts in South India is small in size though unmatched in antiquity. <blockquote>''"Several puranic accounts bring out the importance of this Kshetra without a Shikhara. The temple is endowed with such rare merits that it has a reason for its prominence and there are several stories enumerating the same", says Prof. S. Narayanan.''</blockquote>At the centre of the temple is the Vishnu sannidhi (shrine)with Lord Purushottama is facing east, to the right is the sannidhi dedicated to Brahma and to the left on the other side is the Shiva sannidhi. There is also a separate shrine for Goddess Lakshmi who resides here as Poorvadevi.<ref name=":0" /> |