Mangalore trip on October 2012

Mangalore trip on October 2012

We (Panchapi Chittappa, Jaya chiti, Kanakapatti, govindan mama, viji patti,karthi,Vanchi, Vidya, Akshaya, Gayathri, Bhavani, Srinath, Srinidhi & myself) went to the below temples. We hired a Mini bus to travel around Mangalore. Perday Rs 4000/- + 300 driver batta.
For the 4 days we paid 17200/- for the travel. Food & lodge charges 7000/- We booked to and fro train tickets to mangalore. Enroute viji patti family joined us in payanur.Our train schedule to reach 8.30 at Mangalore reached 9.30, one hour late. Our travels bus was waiting outside so we went and settled in bus. From here kukke subramanya is 100 km.

Kukke Subramanya


We reached river ghat at 11.30 had a bath in the kumaradhara river and Went to kukke Subramanya. It is very famous for sarpa dosha. Small temple with fewer crowds. So we had good darshan. Two Five head snake sitting on top of the other on top of it arumugan is sitting in peacock. He adorned silver kavasha. So we can able to see clearly the base snakes. Waited in a queue and had Lunch. In all Karnataka temples we went we had lunch & dinner in the temple, it is free. We have to appreciate Karnataka temples for three things.

• 1) Free food (lunch & dinner) few places breakfast too.
• 2) Clean Toilet facilities near temple free of cost.
• 3) Lodging facilities by temples with very less cost.

Next we visited adi Subramanya nearby. No crowd. Had a darshan. kumaradhara river flows outside this temple. So spend some time in the river. Only little water flows here. Drizzling stated we ran to catch the bus but the rain is faster than us trenched all of us

Southadka-Sri-Mahaganapathi-Temple

It is very famous temple in this area. Ganapathy is in open area. There is no compont wall for him. He told not to constract any wall for him in a dream. Rain or shine it’s directly affects ganapthy.

Dharmasthala – Manujunatha swamy.

Very famous temple. 2 or 3 hours we have to wait in a queue to have a darshan. Lord shiva in linga rupa. adorned gold kavacha. so easily visible. had a good darshan. went to dining hall. it was very big.approximately 30 rows. each row can accommodates 50 - 60 person.


once a row and opposite row completed the volunteers start to serve us. the speed of the servicing person is very good. seeing the person and serve the food. it is nice to watch it. one by one comes in an order like an army parade. everyone enjoyed and filled our stomach with good food. we waited for few minutes and watch the service persons cleaning styles



Horanadu Annapoorani
Morning 7.00 am we started from Dharmastala for horanadu reached at 11.00. bus goes via the forest area. The scenery on both side capture our eyes. Green trees are the feast to our eyes. small waterfalls in few places.

Had a god darshan. Ambal was in standing position, adorned gold kavacha. before the big deity a small annapoori was there. But I am not able to find her. The big and small garlands covered her. It is not crowded only few peoples on that day for darshan, so we went 2 or 3 times. We wanted to have lunch here. So we told lalitha sahasranama then had a good lunch
Had a small shopping. Coffee power was very famous we also purchased it. stated to sringeri at 2.30

Sringeri- Sharadhambal

Reached sringeri at 4.30. Sringeri saradha temple is on the banks of thungabatra river. The water was very clear. The fishes are big. Some devotes throw foods to fishes. The shiva temple in the complex is treat for art lovers the design sculpture are very good. one mandapam adi sankara story was depicted. The rain also came with us here we all wet enjoyed in drenching in rain.We had a good darshan of Sharadhambal. She was in thanga kavacha. 1000 years old mandabam is here.

Kollur Moogambigai
We reached kollur at 8.30. the temple was closed. We stayed in Yamuna vihar near temple. We had a bath in Sowparnika river in the morning. Then went to temple. Rain was very heavy so we just stayed inside the temple and had another chance to have adarshan of kollur moogambigai. It is in Kodachadri hills. It is believed adi sanakara brought the moogabigai from the top of the hill to bottom of the hill. hence most of the people can have a darshan of devi moogambiga.

Murudeeswara

we started at 6.30 to murudeswara. Enroute the bus traveled in 14 hair pin bends. the route full of greenery the backwater and small canals or more in the route. reached at 10.00.

The temple is in arabian sea. The gopuram is the tallest one. Beating srirangam temple gopuram. The lift facilities are available to go upstairs the lift moves each floor in 3 seconds. So less than 1 minute. We will be at the top. Enjoyed the sea from the top. The big shiva is another attraction. Rain was stated. We stayed in mandapam for few minutes then while drenching in the rain walked towards big shiva. Here Ravana story is depicted. Everyone watched with the thrill. It was very good.

Anegudde Sri Vinayaka temple

It is very beautiful and famous temple. Vinayaka in standing form having four arms.

Udupi

In udpi we saw two shiva temples near krishna temple. First we went to shiva tempels. Then we saw udupi krishna.

Kattil Durga

Very beautiful temple like island water is covered in all sides.

Nandini river sound welcomes us once we enter into temple.

It is like a nandini river hugging the mother kattel durgaparameswari.

Kadri Manjunath

It is a very big temple. In the backside we have to climb 20- 30 steps to see the 7 scared ponds. In another side we climbed to see the Kasi viswanath. There is a Small spring water flows from here it is called Gomugha. we have to take the water and do the abishekam for the Kasi shiva. kids enjoyed this by doing 2 or 3 times. In another side we climbed to see the Hanuman.

Hanuman is very tall approximatlty 40 ft.

Mangaladevi

When we entered the temple, molastan was closed it will be open only at 12 o’clock. So we waited for some time. The temple moolastan is closed after 10am. Open at 12 to 1 pm for noon aarthi. We are in a dilemma to wait or move. Then we decided to have some food in the near by hotel. Had some food and came back at 12. The Mangaladevi was in sitting posture. She is holding Counch and chakra as Vishnu durga.

Description	Arrival	Departure
Mangalore Railway station		9.30 AM
Kukue Subramanya	11.30 AM	2.00 PM
Southadka - mahaganapathi Temple	3.30 PM	4.00 PM
Dharmasthala – Manujunatha swamy	6.00 PM
Night Halt @ Dharmasthala
Start From Dharmastala	7.00 AM
Horanadu Annapoorani	11.00 AM	2.30 PM
Sringeri saradha temple	4.30 PM	5.30 PM
Kollur Moogambigai	8.30 PM
Night Halt @ Kollur
Kollur Moogambigai		6.30 AM
Murudeeswara	10.00 AM	1.00 PM
Anegudde Sri Vinayaka temple	3.00 PM	3.30 PM
Udupi	5.00 PM
Night Halt @ Udupi
Udupi		7.00 AM
Kattil Durga	8.00 AM	9.30 AM
Kadri Manjunath Temple:	10.00 AM	10.40 AM
Mangaladevi	11.30 AM	12.15PM
Mangalore Railway station	12.30PM

Kumbakonam trip on 26th & 27th May 2012

Kumbakonam trip on 26th & 27th May 2012


We (Panchapi Chittappa, Jaya chiti, Kanakapatti,Ranganatha Attimber, attai, Rama patti, Rukku,Vanchi, Vidya, Akshaya, Gayathri, Bhavani, Srinath, Srinidhi & myself) went to the below temples. We hired a Mahindra tourister cab for us. It came in the morning 6.00 AM. We finished all the temples 2 days. total cost for the trip Rs 5500/-

Saraswathi Temple, Koothanur

It is the old and very famous temple for Saraswathi. Well and neatly maintained. It is believed to get the blessing before writing the exams to score Hgh marks. Lot of peoples throng comes here to get the blessings before writing the exams.

Laithambal sametha meganatha swamy temple, Thirumeeyachur, Peralam

Paadal petra stalam. It is believed lalitha sahasranamam was written here.
Ambal adorn with mukuthi, otiyanam and kolusu. Ashtapuja durgai in the prabharam is very famous.
We can see the shiva consoles wife parvathi in the praharam.

Thirumeeyachur temple tank

Periyanayaki sametha Airavateshwarar temple, Dharasuram

Very famous temple. Maintained by ASI. One of the three famous temples built by chola dynasty. Tanjai Periya koil, gangai konda cholapuram are the other two temples.

kalyanasundari sametha kalayana sundarar temple, Nallur


One of the paadal petra stalam.Change in color every 2 hrs.in the same karpagragam both linga swarupam and murthy can be seen. Swayambu lingam. The lingam is change five times in a day. So he got the name panchavarneswarar. Like Vishnu temples here shattari is given to the bhaktas. Ashtabhuja kali with 8 hands very popular and famous. She is very beautiful. She was in yellow color saree.
In praharam we can see kailasa Ganapathy.

My mother in Law native place. So kanaka patti andJaya patti telling us the olden days how they walked the three rivers, how they studied. His father use to keep the buttermilk for the welfare of peoples walking from the town etc.

108 Sivatemple – Papanasam

Here all the 108 lingams are installed by Rama. Here we can see a hanuman in linga form called hanumantha lingam.106 lingams are arranged in 3 rows each row containing 35 lingam center row has 36 the main lingam is the 107 and hanumantha lingam is 108.

27th Sunday



 Petti kaliamman temple, Koranattukkarupur

Kali is kept in big box. Once in a year taken out for 3 days and festival is celebrated.
One of the Panchakrosha Sthalas. Moolavar Abirami sametha sundareswarar.

 Prananatha swamy temple, Thirumangalakudi

Very close to suriyanar temple. The presiding deity is Prananadeswarar (Shiva) and the Goddess, Mangalambigai (Parvathi). The main deity is Swayambu Lingam. One of the paadal petra stalam.
There is no navagrahas sannithi.

Suriyanar koil

One of the main navagraha temples. Main deity Suriayan. All the navagraha swamis are placed in small sannithis. Fully crowded.we have visit this in ordinary days.Here all Navagraha murthys gives only blessing so they don’t have any weapons and vahanams.

Arulmigu Karpagambikai sameda Agneeswarar Temple, Kanjanoor

The main deity is Swayambu Lingam. One of the paadal petra stalam. One of the main navagraha temples—Sukiran.



Sri Bodhendral Adhishtanam ,Govindapuram

59th Acharyal of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam. The new hanuman murthy is installed by Sri Muralidhara guruji. All four veda murthy photos can be seen here. Punch of keerai is kept in a table with a placard says 1 punch is 5/- there is small box next to it. We have to take the keerai & put the money in the hundi. kids enjoyed putting the money and giving the keerai to gosala cows.

Vittal Temple. Govindapuram

One of the tallest temple gopuram in India. Nearly 30 steps walk to reach the main hall. It is big hall. In the hall the wood carvings and painting are very nice.

in the next hall is the karpa graham it is very big. It is a Air conditioned hall. We can see air conditioned karpa graham in north India. I hope this is first in south India. Few persons are doing live bhajans in one corner. The hall is fully with bhajans vibration. The rukmai and vittalan draped in nice white and yellow combination of dresses. We can touch the Rukumai and pandurangan.

Kamakoti peetam Temple, Govindapuram

All kanchi kamakoti peetam acaryal’s are in order with year period. Very clean and calm. Very good place to do meditation.


Uppiliappan temple

Heavy crowded. Had a darshan purchased few prasadam packets hurried to next temple.



Sri Maha Prathyangira Devi Temple - Ayyavadi

It is very close to Uppiliappan temple. It was closing time. We just entered the entrance by seeing us everyone told us to run inside to have a darshan. Ambal is adorn with thanga kavacham. Very beautiful. It does’t look prathyangara devi. Most the flowers are removed from the devi so we had a good darshan. They waited for us for few more minutes.then we thinking of karunai of prthyangira devi returned to home.