Sri Govindaya Namaha!! Om Sri Ranganathaaya Namah! Om Namo Narayanaaya! Om Namo Venkateshaaya!
Vaishnavas consider
the Triranga Darshanam as most valuable and significance when done between the
Sunrise and sunset.
TriRanga means
visiting 3 Ranganatha temples in a day. The 3 Ranganatha temples are
AAdhi Ranga, Madhya Ranga and Anthya
Ranga. AAdhi Ranga is the Sri Ranganatha Swamy at Srirangapatna, Madhya
Ranga is the Sri
Jaganmohana Swamy at Shivanasamudra and Anthya
Ranga is the Sri Ranganatha of Srirangam at Trichinapalli/Tirchy.
It is believed that if
we are able to complete the Darshana of the three Ranga Kshetra’s on the belt
of cauvery ,located in South India in a single day, you will have have the blessings
of a BrahmÄnda Darshana
Aadi Ranga:
Entrance of temple
Temple Timings at srirangapatana
We drove from
Bangalore the previous day and stayed in Mysore. Next day early morning after
bath at home, we started to srirangapatanam at 4AM and we were there at the temple
by 4:45 AM. The temple was open as it was dhanurmasam and we got the first
darshan quickly. By 5 AM we were blessed and we were back in our car.
Madhya Ranga:
Madhya Ranga at
Shivanasamudra
We continued our drive
to Madhya Ranga and reached by 7:25am. When we arrived at Madhya Ranga, the
temple was open as it was Dhanurmasa and not much rush.The Darshan was very
peaceful and we were happy to have completed the two Ranganatha darshans. We
continued our journey to the Anthya ranga by 8 AM.
The Priest encouraged
us and told us that we could reach srirangam by 4:30 PM and can definitely complete
the TriRanga Darshanam on that day.
Anthya Ranga at
SriRangam:
My family - RajaGopuram at SriRangam
Dwajasthambam inside the temple
Temple Shrine after the darshan
We reached Tirchy by
around 4pm with 1 hour break for lunch and 2 pit stops. The sign boards once we
reached TamilNadu was all in Tamil .We trusted the google maps to guide us and
also double checked at a few places to see if we were driving correct. We
reached the yatrinivas in tirchy and got refreshed and drove to the temple
which is around 1.5kms from yatrinivas. We reached temple by 5:30 PM .As it was a public holiday, the rush was too
much and I never expected that the crowd would be soo much. There were approximately more than 2
Lakh people in queue waiting for the darshan. The darshan is extremely
difficult in SriRangam or I felt so because there is no separate queue for
infants/Senior Citizens/ Expecting Mothers. Tirumala is much better and well
organized - its my personal opinion. The temple campus is very huge and there are
chances that kids If not held properly may be missed – however there is an
office for announcements/lost/found etc. As I had an infant and she was crying
very badly, the policeman helped me move inside the temple queue, but again
inside the temple the queue was bigger than what it was outside. My kid and I
managed to request the people along the queue and get the darshan in nearly
1-hour 30 mins. However, my parents and spouse were in queue, which took them 3
hours.No wonder it is called Brahmanda darshanam – really accomplishing all 3
in a day is a challenging task I felt especially with my infant.
By around 8:30 PM we
all met together and took the last aarti
of Thayaar. This was so wonderful experience with loud music and 5 types of
aarti – it was really a beautiful treat to our eyes. Please do not miss this
event if you are around that time in the temple. It is a wonderful experience.
Later we bought the
prasadam that was being sold at the temple counter to get energized.
We returned to
yatrinivas and rested that night in Trichy. This ends the Tri-Ranga Darshanam.
However we still
continued our trip to cover Tanjore and Pondicherry and returned back to
Bangalore.
Temple official Links:
Kindly refer to the timings and sevas offered on the official temple portal
AAdhiRanga - sriranganathaswamytemple
AnthyaRanga - https://srirangam.org/
Routes and distances
Between Places
|
Route
|
Distance in kms
|
|
1.
|
Bangalore -
Srirangapatna
|
Bangalore – Kengeri – Bidadi - Ramanagara – Chennapatna –
Maddur – Mandya – Srirangapatna
|
127
|
2.
|
Srirangapatna - Shivanasamudra
|
Srirangapatna – Malavalli – Bannur – Shivanasamudra
|
71
|
3.
|
Shivanasamudra – Srirangam
|
Shivanasamudra – Kollegal – Hanur – Anthiyur – Bhavani – Thiruchengode
– Namakkal – Musiri – Srirangam
|
300
|
Tips:
If possible, book the
tickets for Srirangam seva online. It costs Rs.250 per person.We were not aware
of the huge rush and this online seva tickets.
This ticket is also
available inside the temple but we need to stand in general queue to reach
inside the temple to get this ticket. If you have the ticket before hand you
can avoid the external rush/standing in general queue.
Happy Darshanam!!
