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Thursday, October 13, 2016

Kadiri - Yaganti - Ahobilam ; (AP) Trip

We planned for 2-3 days trip this time to cover Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple @ Kadiri, Gandikota, Uma Maheshwara Swamy Temple @ Yaganti and Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple @Ahobilam 

Our first destination Sri Khadri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple, Kadiri:

we started off from Bangalore 7:30am and reached Kadiri 11:30am

Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple, Kadiri:











For more details please see this video:

From Kadiri we heard that there is a world's largest banyan tree called Thimmamma Marrimanu which is 25KM from here. So thought of visiting that place as well.

Thimmamma Marrimanu, Kadiri:







Most of us do not know about the place called Gandikota which is near by Jammalamadugu. After reading various fellow travellers articles about this place finally we visited the most scenic view of the Gandikota.

on the way we found this beautiful sunflower garden.

Gandikota: The grand canyons of India

Its already 6pm so we started off from Gandikota to Banaganapalli and stayed there. Next day morning visited 'Yaganti'.

Uma Maheswara Swamy Temple, Yaganti:

This is one of the famous and must be visited temple. Such a beautiful place there are lot many places within the temple surroundings to explore. The most importantly Yaganati Basavanna, Agasthya guha, Shankara guha, Sri pothuluri Veera Bhrammam gari guha and swayambhu Umameshwara temple.

This is the only temple in the world where Lord was not in the form of Linga and diety was along with parvathy devi in a single shrine which is a rare and we can touch the god by having the archana pooja. There are huge number of monkeys all over this place and if anyone carries any kind of cover(s) they will take it from devotees....


 @Agasthya Pushkarini


 Yaganti Basavanna...temple priests says that the size of the nandi will get increased by year on year over the period of time....







for more details, please see this video:

on the way back we can see another fort which is known as Arundhathi Kota (Gadwal kota)



Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple, Ahobilam:

This is another place which is fully hill view and the area is full of forest. 
 Eguva Ahobilam


Diguva Ahobilam

for more details, please see this video;



with this temple, we finally back to home with great memories and blessings from lord.

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Ivar Kandapura and Makali , Karnataka : Stories from Mahabharatha

There are plenty of places in India where people from Ramayana and Mahabharata period stayed. We found one of such place around Bangalore where Pancha Pandavas stayed here for a while and it was a small village called Ivar Kandapur.

Its located near by Bangalore - Tumkur road towards shivakote. we did asked the village people there and also priest to find out the information. As per the legend, the Pandavas spent part of their vanavasa at this place. Here Pandavas installed Lord Shiva Shrine

Legend says this was installed by Arjuna

 Legend says this was installed by Nakula

Legend says this was installed by Sahadeva



Kalabhairava Temple

Legend says this was installed by Dharmaraju. 
This is named as Dharmeshwar Temple and only this temple is open for regular pooja and Abhishek. During our visit, there was a abhishek and followed by prasam distribution and also explained the history of this place by Priest. 


 Dedicated to Kunthi maatha ji
This was for Bhima and its out side of the compound on the right hand side from the main road temple entrance


Apart from this village, the Pandavas also visited Makali near by where Bheema consecrated a shrine for Shiva. This is known as Bheemeshwara temple. This is our next destination. Its around 18KM from Ivar Kandapur.

Interesting to see there are small holes on the rocks which indicate that Pandavas used to play dice here.

As per the legend it is believed that there is foot print of Bheema himself. During our visit there was some water inside the foot print. So tried to take out water from here to see the actual foot and here it looks like this.....one can imagine how tall and big was Bheema!

Bheema's Foot Print:
  
 Bheemeshwar Temple
Inside the temple premisis, Bilva pathri tree.


Opposite to this, there was big Hanuman statue can be seen