ABOUT

Panchamukha Anjaneya Temple is in Panchavatee, a small village, on the high way leading to Tindivanam, about 12 kms away from Pondicherry (Puducherry).The gigantic image of Anjaneya (Hanuman) that stands 36 feet high is one of the tallest Hanuman images in India. This temple has been constructed on 12 acres of land and the area where the temple of Sri Panchamukha Anjaneyaswamy (Hanuman) is located is known as Panchavatee Kshetram. In the great Indian epic, Ramayana, Panchavatee was described as the forest area where Rama and his wife, Sita spent some years as part of their exile from Ayodhya.ThePanchamukha Sri Anjaneyaswamy’s Vigraham (statue) was installed on 11th June 2003.Panchamukha Sri Anjaneya’s devotees throng this temple to offer him a garland of ulundu vadais (black gram savory doughnuts), known popularly as Hanumar vadais. The significance behind offering this garland is that black gram has cooling properties. This cools down the angry form of Anjaneya and makes him benign to his devotees.