On New year, we visited Lord Siva Temple in Kempfort (Bangalore) in Call Taxi. It is around 8 Kms from Koramangala and we opted for the Call Taxi's Rs100 per hour scheme .
It is a must-visit place for the people living in Bangalore. Interestingly, the entrance to the temple has few steps that go downwards and we need to walk few meters from the entrance into the temple to get the ticket for special darshan(Rs 50) or wait in a queue for worshipping without ticket.
The Lord Siva idol in sitting posture is atleast 60ft high and his smile is so lively that makes you feel so happy ! There is also a big idol of Lord Vinayaka in the entrance. The temple is very well planned as there is small pond before Lord Siva and beside the pond is the yagam where devotees can buy few wooden sticks, rice, oil and pray. There are also some caves with few deities inside those caves. In the pond, devotees lit candles and make it float in the water that keeps circulating around the pond. There is also a Magic Spot that will help us in achieving our desired thoughts if we stand over that spot chanting 'Aum Nama Shivaya' and drop coins that we get from the counter nearby. We could also see a jet of water sprinkling out of the head of Lord and falling on the ground and that scene is still living in my eyes !!
This great new Lord Shiva Temple is located inside Bangalore city . It is sure to draw in lot of local crowd on weekends & weekdays. I am sure that many people near that area would be planning their weekend to worship Lord Shiva and do a quick purchase in 'Total mall' for the week/month as it is very next to it.
Thanks for such a beautiful temple in the heart of city :-)
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Tanjore Big Temple trip - Chennai to Thanjavur
Recently we had a trip to Tanjore Big Temple(Brihadeeswarar Temple) from Chennai.
We started from Chennai in SETC bus around 10 PM and reached Thanjavur(Tanjore) by 8 AM in the morning. It was one of the finest ride as we were able to get a good glimpse of the agricultural areas. We stayed in a lodge nearby the main(New) busstand and finished our breakfast before starting to the temple.
It costs you around Rs.30 in an auto from the New busstand to the Temple. We were welcomed by an elephant in the Temple Gateway (Interestingly i found a similar elephant in most of the pictures in internet w.r.t Tanjore Big Temple :-) ). The Big Temple belongs to Chola dynasty and i wonder how the kings have nourished the Art & Temples in those days !
One of the speciality of this temple is that the Shadow of the temple will not fall on the floors at any circumstances by sunlight. It is one of the strange architecture in the world today.
The entire temple is made of hard granite stones !! The Nandi is sooooooo big and carved out of single stone that held us our breath for a second. Its eyes were very lively and i could visualize it even now . It is a very big temple and the Lord Shiva idol is fantastic. There are lot of stone deities around the courtyard . It was interesting to find a series of stone carved Nandis on the wall surrounding the temple !
The temple gives us an idea about the strength of Chola emperor in Architecture, Sculpture, Painting and Designing. No surprise, Tanjore(Thanjavur) is one of the biggest Tourist places in South India.
We started from Chennai in SETC bus around 10 PM and reached Thanjavur(Tanjore) by 8 AM in the morning. It was one of the finest ride as we were able to get a good glimpse of the agricultural areas. We stayed in a lodge nearby the main(New) busstand and finished our breakfast before starting to the temple.
It costs you around Rs.30 in an auto from the New busstand to the Temple. We were welcomed by an elephant in the Temple Gateway (Interestingly i found a similar elephant in most of the pictures in internet w.r.t Tanjore Big Temple :-) ). The Big Temple belongs to Chola dynasty and i wonder how the kings have nourished the Art & Temples in those days !
One of the speciality of this temple is that the Shadow of the temple will not fall on the floors at any circumstances by sunlight. It is one of the strange architecture in the world today.
The entire temple is made of hard granite stones !! The Nandi is sooooooo big and carved out of single stone that held us our breath for a second. Its eyes were very lively and i could visualize it even now . It is a very big temple and the Lord Shiva idol is fantastic. There are lot of stone deities around the courtyard . It was interesting to find a series of stone carved Nandis on the wall surrounding the temple !
The temple gives us an idea about the strength of Chola emperor in Architecture, Sculpture, Painting and Designing. No surprise, Tanjore(Thanjavur) is one of the biggest Tourist places in South India.
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