T- Narasipura ( Tirumakudalu Narasipura )

Tirumakudalu Narasipura ( T.Narasipura )

Agastheswara Temple

From Bangalore Mysore Road towards Mysore and just after maddur bus stand, you will find a deviation towards Malavalli, take that route & reach Malavalli from here it is around 25 kms to T.Narsipura. The roads are bad from Malavalli to T.Narsipura needs to be aphalted.

Agastheswara temple view from Gunja Narasimha temple

Temple Road

From Mysore the Road near Lalit Mahal Palace leads to T.Narsipura which is around 32 kms.
The road is good from Mysore to Tirumakudalu-Narsipura ( T.Narasipura).

3 Rivers joining place

It is a very religious place it is surrounded by Astadala Parvatas (Mountains) and at the confluence of the three rivers Cauvery, Kapila and Gupta Gaamini. (Spatika Sarovara is called Triveni sangama a mythical lake or spring ).The place was also called as Trimakoota in the past.

Ferry Boat to cross the River

Considered as sacred as Prayag (confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the Saraswati at Prayag in North India), it is also known as Dakshina Kashi.The town finds mention in tourism guides, both as a tourist place and a pilgrimage centre.

Gunja Narasimha swamy Temple

Gunja Narsimha Swamy Temple temple is on the other bank of River Kapila and Cauvery.The temple is built in Dravidian Style with a large structure and a high gopura with four pillared mantap. Lord Narasimha holds in his right hand a berry stalk of Gunja plant between his thumb and forefinger. Every year the Car Festival of Gunja Narasimha Swamy is celebrated with pomp and show.

another view of the Temple

It is also a very renounced pilgrimage center, sanctified by sage Agasthya. There is a famous Agastheswara Temple here. This Kshetra (sacred place) is also mentioned in the Skanda Purana.

108 Anjaneya Silas

Sage / Rishi Agasthya had visualised it as 'Dakshina Kashi' long ago. When he travelled down South to T.Narsipura, the town was a thick forest. Enamoured by the confluence of the three rivers - Cauvery, Kapila and the undercurrent of Spatika Sarovara - he wanted to install a Shiva Linga there and asked Hanuman to get him a linga from Kashi. Since the auspicious period lasting three-and-a-three-fourth of a galige was fast approaching and Hanuman failed to get the linga on time, the sage created a sand linga by himself and consecrated it. An insulted Hanuman, who returned soon, cut off the top portion of the sand linga consecrated by Agasthya. From the axed summit, the Spatika Sarovara and is offered as thirtha (holy water) to all the pilgrims.The linga that Hanuman brought was consecrated a little distance away and is called the Hanuman Linga.

Sri Raghunatha tirthara Moola Brindavana

sri Vidya Vachaspati tirtharu

This is the place in South India where Kumbha Mela is held every three years.

Sri Vyasaraja Mutt Far view

Famous for Vyasaraya Mutt head quartered and has Eight Mruthika Brindavanas and one Moola Brindavana of Sri Raghunatha Tirtharu similar on the lines of Nava Brindavana - Hampi.

Sri Vyasaraja Mutt

The legend associated with Gunja Narasimhaswamy Temple is that Narasimha appeared in the dream of a washerman telling him that his idol lay beneath the stone on which he washed clothes everyday. The deity told him to build a temple for him and asked him to look for gold coins beneath the stone which could be used for the construction of the temple. When the washerman expressed his wish to visit (Kashi) Varanasi on a pilgrimage, god told him that the construction of a temple for him had earned him (washerman) an additional punya (blessing) of about a gulaganji (seed of a twig tree) than that which accrues by visiting Kashi. Thus, the name tag Gunja came into usage with name of the God Narasimhaswamy.

Photos Found inside the Vyasaraja Mutt - T. Narasipura

Silas Foundin Agastheswara Temple

The Someshwara and Markandeshwara lingams in T.Narsipura and the Gargeshwara Lingam at Gargeshwari village, along with the Agasthyeshwara and the Hanuman lingam, form the panchalingas of T.Narsipura similar to the five lingams at Talakadu.

Nagara Kallu found in Vyasaraja mutt

Bala Krishna

Young Achar

There are no good hotels in T.Narsipura, only Canteens are there so prefer to carry Food from Home.

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