Jounrney to old Hoysala tempels in Mandya.
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The journey begin from Mandya in My New car Turbo DLG..
My freinds as come from Bangalore to Mandya in bus and later joined me in Mandya.
our journey begin at 9 from Mandya on 21st OCt Sunday 2007,
Started with Tiffin in Shivalli(Dudha) near Mandya and went to Melkote
MELUKOTE:
Yoga Narasimha Temple:
After driving up a few narrow winding streets we reached the parking place at the foot of the hill.We reached Melukote at 10.30 am. On the top of the hill there is a temple of Yoga Narasimha. To reach here you have to take big steps( half way you can go by vehicles . There are around 30 to 40 steps to reach temple. Temple is 1,777 mtr above from the sea level. After reaching the temple we could able to see a beautiful nature surrounding. It is a 1000year old temple and here we could not find that beautiful architecture still is looks good.We spent 30min in the temple.
AKKA TANGI KOLA:
This KOLA(pond) is near to the temple.There are two ponds in one pond there is dirty water(in Akka kola) and in another pond there is clean water(TANGI kola). We asked the reason for this to one old lady she told "The younger sister was willing to build a pound but elder sister was not interested for this. At last both built a different ponds, in younger sister's pond there was a clean water but in elder sister's pond dirty water because she was not interested for this". The main thing is we could able to differentiate both pond water.
Tiru Narayana:
Then we head in to the town there a big Tiru Narayana temple. We parked the car and started walking towards the temple, on the way we got a beautiful KALYANI (water pond surrounded by steps). Here people were taking bath and praying to god. After that we entered to temple, this is a large temple surrounded by an open veranda in side that there were so many beautiful carved pillars. We spent some time there and took many photographs. I asked Praveen "how was they able to do this type of design in stone?" He gave a smile and replied they were intelligent.
Now its 12 noon, we left for the Hosaholalu its nearly 27km from here near K.R.Pete.
Hosaholalu:
We reached K.R.Pete at 12.45 and had lunch and started driving towards Hosahoralu. It is trikuta (three shrined) Lakshminarayana temple. Here the temple was closed and we could able to see only from the outside. The outer wall is with the beauties of deities made up of stone. Here i surprised by seeing this sculptures. It is worth going here. And again I asked the same question to praveen "how was they able to do this type of design in stone?" and got the same reply.We spent more than 45min here.
Praveen explained me some sculptures meaning. Before this i never used to enjoy in temple but this time i enjoyed and got to know so many things. Thanks to Praveen.
Govindanahalli:
This was our main destiny to see, whole journey started to see this panchalingeswara temple...
Its nealy 15km from the K.R.Pete . Its difficult to reach here by bus and we did't see a single board to show the way.Here we had to struggle little bit to reach here.
On the way we saw an accident between bike and Maruthi Omni ,..just a small hit from bike caused lot of damage to maruthi omni car,..The bike person head has come out and the child sitting inside maruthi got fractured..
So,..started driving carefully.......
We reached the temple by 2.30 and here also temple was closed. Its a very big temple panchkuta (five shrined) Shiva temple. In the entrance two Veera bhadhreshwara sculpture and opposite to the main entrance a beautiful sculpture Nandi. We spent 20min by seeing out side the temple after that one lady came and opened the door of the temple. Inside the temple there are mainly five Lingu's situated with the different names and there are number of lined carved pillars and as usual so many sculptures on the wall.
One thing which i wanted to tell is,.. we should give proper publicity to these type of places,..
till we come here we never thought it will be such a nice place with cool atmosphere,...
Govt. and also the people should give proper publicity and help to preserve these old temples....
From here we started journey back to Bangalore at around 3.15pm. On the way to mandya we stopped in AALE MANE(the place to prepare jaggery) near Bedara Halli pandava pura distict. HeY.. we had a mugs of nice sugercane juice and fresh jaggery(it will be in jelly state).
Even thoe I had these alemane experence many times in my child days , its a different exp for my bangalore fnds,..
Even I enjoyed a lot ....
Please see the pics in this URl
Picture of trip
