Kanchipuram part 1

next day we went with one of our friend to Kanchipuram as it is famous for tousand different, ancient temples, what to speak of the history and great events in the past. It is said that Panini the great autor and famous compiler of sanskrit grammatic guidelines has stayed in 2. century BC here. Also Sri Ramanujacarya has spent his youth here, and studied under one mayavada-advaita guru the Vedas, who became later his own disciple, by name yadava prakash. Later when Yadava Prakash was allready the disciple of Sri Ramanujacarya, he wrote a famous book for rules and regulations to those who follow the Sannyasi ashram (renunicate) in sanskrit (for interested people; you can get a english version of that book in the internet).
The big stressy city of Kanchipuram is divided into two main places, called Shiva Kanchi were most Shiva and Devi Temple reside) and Vishnu Kanchi. In and around Kanchipuram are more then 18 Divya Desas (glorified by the ancient saints the Alwars of south india), and the most famous one is Lord Varadaraja (the King of giver of boons). This Lord appeared from a Yagna Lord Brahma performed, on the beginning of the Kali Yuga, to reduce the influence of that very bad time coming. Lord Vishnu appeared to Lord Brahma, and left behind a wooden 2 meter size Vishnu Deity, to bless the future generations with the darshan of His. Later one when the deity started to deteriate, the priests kept that wooden deity in one big silver box inside the Kalyani (watertank see pic) in front of the entrance of the Temple of Lord Varadraja, and replaced Him with a huge granite Deity for daily worship. Only every 80 years that tank will be emptied from the water and the Deity will come out, and worshipped only for few days. We heard it will be again coming around 2015, so ever will be around please see that very rare and powerful Lord! (actually we are not sure of the time mentioned to us, if any of you have the correct time, please inform us)!