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This is a Divya Desam (S. No.56). The place is known as Parameswara Vinnagaram.

Goddesses Parvathi, Mahalakshmi, and Saraswati came down to earth once to perform penance.  Sages Athri, Brugu, Kashyapa, Kaundilya, Triorisheya, Bharadwaja, and others helped them. 

After a while Lord Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva came there to take the mothers back.  The power of the penance of the Rishis was such that the Lords could not go near their consorts. 

They sent a beautiful Gandharva virgin near the sages.  Sage Bharadwaja fell in love with her and had a son.

Lord Maha Vishnu took the form of a hunter and brought up the boy and named him Parameswara Varman.  He was a staunch Vishnu devotee since his infancy. Lord Vishnu taught him all the arts. 

By the time he was completing the courses, his life was coming to end.  In order to extend his life to a long span, Lord reclined with his head on the northern side.

When Yama, the God of Death, came to take the boy, he was shocked to see the Lord with His head towards the north and understood that something bad or strange would happen.

Lord told Yama that He would move only if he ensures a long life to His devotee.  Yama had no choice.  He obeyed and turned away assuring long life to the boy-Parameswara Varman.

Parameswaran asked the hunter-father who He was.  Lord granted him His darshan.  Parameswara Varman decided to build a temple with Lord’s three postures, standing, sitting and reclining.

The Lord is Paramapada Natha in the first sage in sitting form and in standing form at the third.  In the middle, He is in reclining form as Sri Ranganatha with Mothers Sridevi and Bhoodevi on the Adisesha with His head at the north facing west.

 Mother blesses the devotees from a shrine facing east in the front Mandap.  Divine serpent Adisesha is under a two joint trees in the prakara.

The Vaikunda Perumal temple was built sometime during the seventh century.

The architecture of the temple is noteworthy not only in terms of religion but also in terms of history. The walls of the temple have writings engraved on them that speak about the combat between the Chalukyas and the Pallavas.  

Tourists flock to the temple to see the main attraction of the temple , the hall of 1000 pillars. Each pillar is unique in itself since every pillar has a different statue carved on it. The passages within the temple are supported by pillars that have lion carved on them.