Panchamukavadyam has five faces resembling Lords Shiva's five faces from"Satyojatham is Nagapantham," from" Vamadevam is Swasthikam," from Agoorm is thakgam" from thatpurshotham is Sudham,from Esanam smakali. each face Are tied with deer leather.
It must be play ed only by parasaiva who had siva deekshai. they are also poojari of "Pedariamman'. They are playing this with 7thalas and 35 type Jathis. they should dressed with red dress and red flower and Sandle paste(santhanam).
When LORD SIVA destroyed thireepuram of the three demons namedTharaghakshan, Vidyulmali,vanasuran prayed for his mercy and Siva appionted two of them as his gate keeper (Dwarapalaka) and Vanavan the third one as to play panchamukavadyam. It is described in Koormapuranam by Adiveerarama pandian. But in Tiruvarur temple It is painted as Lord Vishnu is playing it.In some temples it is described as Lord Nandhi or Adi sheashan or Boothaganams are playing.
In this temple it is placed on a wheeled platform so that it can be dragged to where ever Sri Thyagaraja goes.
Tiruthuraipoondi temple has Panchamugavadyam. But nobody to play .
Note: I collected this information from a book "Kudamuza' by Mr. Kudavasal Balasubramaniam.
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