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http://kausiksarathy.blogspot.com/2008/08/sthala-sayana-perumal.html.
This article is an exploration of why this place came to be known as ‘Artha sethu’.
http://www.tamilnadutourism.org/temples/citywise/Mamallapuram.aspx?
catid=c2&subcat1id=c2s1&subcat2id=c2s1s9
“When the sage (Punadareeka muni) returned with food, he saw that the sea had dried up.
In the place where the water had been, a beautiful figure was lying in recumbent posture.
The sage realised that the old man was none but the lord himself. He placed the lotus at
the feet of the Lord. Because the Lord touched the sea for bailing water, it is now called
"Artha Sethu"."
The story connected here of the Lord bailing off or removing the water of the sea
Artha is wealth.
facing the sea in the east and lying on the ground with the right arm as his pillow.
http://www.valmikiramayan.net/yuddha/sarga21/yuddha_21_frame.htm
(2) The usually present snake bed is not there for both Rama and Sthala Sayana perumal.
(On the contrary, Rama at ThiruppullaNi temple (Dhanush Koti) is on snake bed!)
The hand and body have no weapons and jewellery in both cases.
(6) At both the places, his consort is not seated close to him.
In any lying posture of Perumal (on snake), his consort will be accompanying Him.
His consort (Lakshmi) will be seated at His feet on a lotus or on the snake bed itself.
In Kadal Mallai, she is not seated near Him. She is in a separate sannidhi.
When Rama was lying on the ground at Sethu, Sita was not with him.
(7) The consort at both places was not seated on the ceremonial chair or lotus.
Sita too was sitting on the ground in her confinement in Ashoka vana at Lanka.
Sita was not known to have seated on a chair or some aasan during her confinement.
Ardha as adjective looks more apt making this word a compound noun.
the one who shot a series of arrows to kill Ravana of southern Lanka,
and who also knows the ancient four Vedas, 5 homas and 6 vedangas
But then he sees in this perumal other avatars too, including Kalki.
The following are the verses on Kadal mallai from Nalaayira Divya Prabhandam.
This shows that the similarities between the Kadal malli perumal
There is also a possibility that the name was given by some patron kings (pallavas).
We must look for some inscriptions or carvings in and around the place to ascertain this.
According Vaishnavite belief, the present temple is one among the 7 temples of Vishnu
This means the land in those days had gone much into the sea
and the original Sthalasayana perumal that Azhwars sang was believed to be
as the sthala puranam is about the Lord making an opening in the sea,
but also raises possibilities to give credence to the oldest story connected to
Mahabalipuram,
The very name Mahabalipuram is traced to the king Mahabali who reigned this place and
It is possible to say that the oldest temples here were connected with Vamana avatara.
Read this.
http://www.grahamhancock.com/underworld/underworld7.php
A full fledged Sethu connecting 2 shores will relieve one of all paapas.
http://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/2008/02/symbolism-of-sethu.html
This is about Ram Sethu connecting the Indian main land with Lanka.
A sethu not connecting any land but only upto a stretch of the sea
http://ramanuja.blog.com/ThirukadalMallai/
http://www.trsiyengar.com/id204.shtml
http://www.kadalmallai.info/Location.htm