A days outing to Devrayanadurga, goravanahalli,hebbur and kaidala
Date: 25-12-2009
Group: 8
Places: Goravanahalli, devarayanadurga, hebbur, kaidala
Route: Bangalore – dabbaspet – goravanahalli – devarayanadurga – kunigal – hebbur – kaidala – tumkur – bangalore
about 350 KMs in all.
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Log:
We left bangalore at 630 in the morning. after picking up my sister’s family, we took magadi road, NICE road and then joined tumkur road just before nelamangala.
It was a tiresome travel until nelamangala along tumkur road with traffic moving in inches. It was a relief to get the tumkur toll road.
We took a right turn near dobbaspet. from dobbaspet goravanahalli is around 35 kms. the roads very pretty good.
We reached goravanahalli at 11. Since it was friday and a chritmas holiday, there was lot more crowd than expected.
After the darshan of goddess lakshmi, we went to the annadasoha. Annadasoha is a place where lunch is served as prasada.
every batch lasts for 10 minutes. for that mass, the food was of decent quality.The way the authority was managing the dasoha was pretty good.
We next visited Devarayanadurga. Heres a yoganarasimha temple.
Namada chilume is on the way back from devarayanadurga. mythologically, Rama had hit an arrow to create a waterstream so the sita could quench her thirst.
Since we still had two more agenda to complete, we missed namada chilume.
taking kunigal road, we reached hebbur at 430. it has a goddess kamakshi temple. The place is famous for it 5 shri chakras, one of them being the temple itself.
from there we went to kaidala via shettyhalli gate. Kaidala has a chennakeshava temple of hoysala reign. The sculpture is similar to belur chennakeshava though smaller in size.
The priest told us the legends regarding the temple. the place was known as kreedanagar (place of playground) as it was hosting the horse race, wresting archery sports during the
hoysala period. The king gave a monolithic stone to jakanachari. Janakachari, then 84 yr young, had cut of his right hand for sculpting a faulty stone.
The shilpashastra ( science of sculpting) tells that whatever is done in left hand is impure. But jakanachari had no other choice. so he sculpted a chennakeshava similar to belur but with suttle
major changes.
the shanka(conch) chakra positions are interchanged.
The are signs of trimoorty brahma’s kamala, shiva’s panipeeta, and above that the lord chennakeshava.
The panipeeta is reversed direction.usually is ends to the left of god. but here it ends to the right of god.
I guess because of all these, the lord is west facing instead of east. ie if you look from east, some thing are followed according to the shilpashastra.
It was kind of mystrious place.
We started our journey back to bangalore. It was midnight when we reached home. It was a good christmas outing
Date: 25-12-2009
Group: 8
Places: Goravanahalli, devarayanadurga, hebbur, kaidala
Route: Bangalore – dabbaspet – goravanahalli – devarayanadurga – kunigal – hebbur – kaidala – tumkur – bangalore
about 350 KMs in all.
View Larger Map
Log:
We left bangalore at 630 in the morning. after picking up my sister’s family, we took magadi road, NICE road and then joined tumkur road just before nelamangala.
It was a tiresome travel until nelamangala along tumkur road with traffic moving in inches. It was a relief to get the tumkur toll road.
We took a right turn near dobbaspet. from dobbaspet goravanahalli is around 35 kms. the roads very pretty good.
We reached goravanahalli at 11. Since it was friday and a chritmas holiday, there was lot more crowd than expected.
After the darshan of goddess lakshmi, we went to the annadasoha. Annadasoha is a place where lunch is served as prasada.
every batch lasts for 10 minutes. for that mass, the food was of decent quality.The way the authority was managing the dasoha was pretty good.
We next visited Devarayanadurga. Heres a yoganarasimha temple.
Namada chilume is on the way back from devarayanadurga. mythologically, Rama had hit an arrow to create a waterstream so the sita could quench her thirst.
Since we still had two more agenda to complete, we missed namada chilume.
taking kunigal road, we reached hebbur at 430. it has a goddess kamakshi temple. The place is famous for it 5 shri chakras, one of them being the temple itself.
from there we went to kaidala via shettyhalli gate. Kaidala has a chennakeshava temple of hoysala reign. The sculpture is similar to belur chennakeshava though smaller in size.
The priest told us the legends regarding the temple. the place was known as kreedanagar (place of playground) as it was hosting the horse race, wresting archery sports during the
hoysala period. The king gave a monolithic stone to jakanachari. Janakachari, then 84 yr young, had cut of his right hand for sculpting a faulty stone.
The shilpashastra ( science of sculpting) tells that whatever is done in left hand is impure. But jakanachari had no other choice. so he sculpted a chennakeshava similar to belur but with suttle
major changes.
the shanka(conch) chakra positions are interchanged.
The are signs of trimoorty brahma’s kamala, shiva’s panipeeta, and above that the lord chennakeshava.
The panipeeta is reversed direction.usually is ends to the left of god. but here it ends to the right of god.
I guess because of all these, the lord is west facing instead of east. ie if you look from east, some thing are followed according to the shilpashastra.
It was kind of mystrious place.
We started our journey back to bangalore. It was midnight when we reached home. It was a good christmas outing
Thanx for the photos.
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