Sunday, October 16, 2016

KOLADEVI GARUDA TEMPLE AND KURUDMALE VINAYAKA TEMPLE


Date : Sep 18, 2016
Team : Myself, Manjunath and Sri Ananth Kaskar

Left Bangalore by 8-00 am via Hebbal-Nagawara Road-KR Puram-Kolar in the midway we had a breakfast at Maiyya's Restorant, reached Koladevi by 11-00 am


Mulabagilu is a city and taluk headquarters of Mulabagilu taluk in the Kolar district in the state of Karnataka, India. It lies just off the National Highway 4 as the eastern most town of the state and a hill landmark.

"Mulabagilu" (ಮುಳಬಾಗಿಲು) comes from the word mudalabagilu, which means the "eastern door" in the native Kannada language. Mulabagilu was supposedly the easternmost frontier of (and thereby the entrance to) the state of Mysuru. Hence, the name. Mulabagilu was also the eastern gate to the Vijayanagara Empire.

Garuda Temple and Sri Prasanna Chowdeshwari Temple, Koladevi

Garuda Temple is one of the ancient epic Ramayana-related temples located at Koladevi 18 km from Mulabagilu national highway, 19 km from Srinivaspur and 4 km from Mudianur. It was built under the supervision of Sri Ramanujacharya, but only came to light recently. Sri Prasanna Chowdeshwari Temple is 300 years old.



The Garuda is a large mythical bird, bird-like creature, or humanoid bird that appears in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology. Garuda is the mount (vahana) of the Lord Vishnu. Garuda is the Hindu name for the constellation Aquila. The brahminy kite and phoenix are considered to be the contemporary representations of Garuda. Indonesia adopts a more stylistic approach to the Garuda's depiction as its national symbol, where it depicts a Javanese eagle (being much larger than a kite)


The garuda temple located in 'koladevi' a small village located in 'mulabagal taluk' in' kolar' district karnataka. This is one of the very few temples which has its principle diety as 'garuda swamy' who is the vehicle of the supreme lord vishnu.


Coming to the history of koladevi, in threta yuga during ramayana, the demon king of Sri Lanka 'RAVANA' who kidnapped 'SEETHA' while taking her in his 'Vimana' a bird called 'Jatayu' was opposed Ravana  to save Seetha. At that time 'Ravana with his sword broke both of the wings of that bird, even the bird attempted a strong fight to rescue sitha from ravana. Then with extreme pain the bird chanted as 'Rama' 'Rama' , after hearing the painful chanting of the bird Lord Srirama saw the bird and came to know the facts. Then the bird requested rama to bury the bird at the same place . After this incident the place got the name as 'koladevi' and now in kaliyuga the same jatayu is resided as 'garuda' and the idol of garuda was installed by the great sage 'brugu maharshi' some centuries back, and performed regular rituals for the diety. And the speciality of the garuda idol here is that it is carrying lord 'vishnu' on right shoulder, and godess 'lakshmi' on left shoulder. And one can find a beautiful idol of lord 'hanuman' also here. And the temple is getting more and more popular as it is the one of the very few garuda temples in india. So the temple here is very powerful and so many people have benefited by performing puja at the temple. The temple is opened through out the year.
 
Route details:
 
From Bengaluru on NH-4 Tirupathi Chennai National Highway:

after crossing Kolar, one can find RL Jalappa Hospital, after that a 'KMF Milk Dairy ' is located.Then you have to take left , the roads leads to Srinivasapura, from there please enquire about a village 'mudiyanur cross' from their one can head towards 'Koladevi' village. (the road condition is very poor).

Temple contact details: Main Priest of the Temple:

Sri. Srinivas
[mob:- 9900581401]


 











 (Heegu Unte Programme)

Kurudumale, Maha Ganapathi Temple and Someshwara Temple


Kurudumale, 8 km northwest from Mulabagilu, is famous for Lord Ganapati Temple. The idol of Ganapati is made of a single "Shaligram rock" and is about 21 feet from ground level. The idol and temple are estimated to be 5,000 years old.
 
                                Maha ganapathi temple,kurudumale near mulbagal

this is a temple built by Vijayanagar king Krishnadevaraya. but long before that the main idol of Lord ganesh made up of the rare Saligrama stone which was installed by the great trimurthi's bramha,vishnu,shiva. this is one of the popular temples in kolar district which is often visited by the people from in and around Bengaluru, this temple will be opened throughout the year.

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