Friday, Saturday 15, 16 November 2019
Ahobilum, Andhra Pradesh.
Ahobilum, hilly place in Andhra Pradesh, distance of about 340 km from Bengaluru.
The small temple town is famous for the NarasimhaSwamy temples around the hills.
Lord NarasinhaSwamy is believed to be avatar of Lord Vishnu in Narasimha Avatara.
NarasimhaSwamy Temples are in nine different places in the Ahobila hills along with a huge Lakshmi Naraswamy temple in lower Ahobila.
The nine places of Lord Narasimha are
1. Karanja Narasimha
2. Ahobila Narasimha
3. Maalola Narasimha
4.Varaaha (Kroda) Narasimha
5. Jwala (Ugra) Narasimha
6. Vamana Narasimha
7. Bharagava Narasimha
8. Chatravata Narasimha
9 Yogananda Narasimha.
We left from K R Puram, bus stand Bengaluru at 11 pm Thursday night by Indu travels sleeper bus. We took Uber Taxi from Birthimane and reached K R Puram at 10 pm. Subramanya Kordale and his wife Ragini, from Mangalore, close friend and well wishers from many years, joined us.
Bus going to Nandyala, we stopped over at 7 am at Allagadda, from there we took local bus to Ahobila, 22 km away. Checked in at 9 am at Brahmana Annachatra (Lodge). After bath and freshening up, took breakfast at Raghavendra Bhavana, we started for the first part of visiting Narasimha Temples.
Visit to these temples are done in two parts.
First was visit to KARANJA NARASIMHA (1) on the way to hills, auto was stopped and visited for a short time, as the temple was under renovation.
We had autorikshaw ride till the bottom of the hills and the first visit was to Upper AHOBILA NARASIMHA (2) Lord Narasimha residing in the cave and made of Saligrama stone.
Next was visit to MAALOLA NARASIMHA, (3) which is at a distance of 2 km in Vedadri Hills. One has climb about 100 steps to reach the temple.
Another 2 km in the hills there is VARAHA (KRODA) NARASIMHA(4) This idol has Varaaha Face, human body and lion's tail.
Next 4 km walking and trekking in the hills, most challenging temple to reach was
Ahobilum, Andhra Pradesh.
Ahobilum, hilly place in Andhra Pradesh, distance of about 340 km from Bengaluru.
The small temple town is famous for the NarasimhaSwamy temples around the hills.
Lord NarasinhaSwamy is believed to be avatar of Lord Vishnu in Narasimha Avatara.
NarasimhaSwamy Temples are in nine different places in the Ahobila hills along with a huge Lakshmi Naraswamy temple in lower Ahobila.
The nine places of Lord Narasimha are
1. Karanja Narasimha
2. Ahobila Narasimha
3. Maalola Narasimha
4.Varaaha (Kroda) Narasimha
5. Jwala (Ugra) Narasimha
6. Vamana Narasimha
7. Bharagava Narasimha
8. Chatravata Narasimha
9 Yogananda Narasimha.
We left from K R Puram, bus stand Bengaluru at 11 pm Thursday night by Indu travels sleeper bus. We took Uber Taxi from Birthimane and reached K R Puram at 10 pm. Subramanya Kordale and his wife Ragini, from Mangalore, close friend and well wishers from many years, joined us.
Bus going to Nandyala, we stopped over at 7 am at Allagadda, from there we took local bus to Ahobila, 22 km away. Checked in at 9 am at Brahmana Annachatra (Lodge). After bath and freshening up, took breakfast at Raghavendra Bhavana, we started for the first part of visiting Narasimha Temples.
Visit to these temples are done in two parts.
First was visit to KARANJA NARASIMHA (1) on the way to hills, auto was stopped and visited for a short time, as the temple was under renovation.
We had autorikshaw ride till the bottom of the hills and the first visit was to Upper AHOBILA NARASIMHA (2) Lord Narasimha residing in the cave and made of Saligrama stone.
Next was visit to MAALOLA NARASIMHA, (3) which is at a distance of 2 km in Vedadri Hills. One has climb about 100 steps to reach the temple.
Another 2 km in the hills there is VARAHA (KRODA) NARASIMHA(4) This idol has Varaaha Face, human body and lion's tail.
Next 4 km walking and trekking in the hills, most challenging temple to reach was
JWAALA NARASIMHA (5). As one of the bridge was closed, we had to walk through the stones, boulders, water stream and climb the steps. After climbing about 700 steep steps, we reach walking path where water from BhavaNashini falling from the top, we walk through drenching ourselves and reach the temple. We had brief darshan of the temple, with the priest Narasimha explaining the background.
Then the walk down and climbing down starts, the same way we walked up. As we lost our way and climbed another 50 steps, only to realize we were on the wrong way. However, we returned and reached our partners to Upper Ahobila Narasimha Temple.
The second part was next day morning, after breakfast hired a 4 - wheeler Jeep Rs 3000/- rent) to visit.
First was PAWANA NARASIMHA (6), about 20 km away on a rough track with stones, flowing stream, reached almost after one hour of rough ride in the jeep. It was a short Darshana, many people were, some sacrificing chicken to lord Narasimha. It was just 15 minutes stop and the jeep ride back. About 3 km again inside the forest, we were at BHARAGAVA NARASIMHA (7), climbing about 70 steps to reach the temple. Pooja and darshan, climbed down the steps, back into the Jeep.
From the main road, about 4 km, we reached CHATRAVATA NARASIMHA (8), recently renovated and clean and beautiful temple. After a short darshan, proceeded further to YOGANANDA NARASIMHA (9) temple, nice location, well maintained.
After completing Darshana of NAVA (9) NARASIMHA of Ahobilum with feeling of satisfaction and sense of achievement.
Having Lunch at AnnaChatra, it was time pack up and leave fo SRI SAILAM via AllaGadda and Nandyala.
Posted Wednesday, 20th Nov. 2019
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