Category: Travelogue

  • Thiruvannamalai Temple Thiruvannamalai District, Tamil Nadu

    Thiruvannamalai Temple is located in Thiruvannamallai district of Tamilnadu. It is about 185 kms from Chennai and 210 kms from Bangalore. The town is situated to the east of Eastern ghats and the temple located on the base of Annamalai hills. The town Thiruvannamalai is named after Annamalaiyar, the principal deity of the temple. During…

  • Ghats of Varanasi – Part 1

    Varanasi or Kasi is an ancient town mentioned in Rig Veda. The etymology of the word Kasi is from the Sanskrit verbal root kas means to shine- Kasi as the city of light or a luminous city of knowledge and learning. The town Varanasi is located in between the river Varuna at the Northern side…

  • Dunagiri Devi Temple Dunagiri, Dwarahat, Almora, Uttarkhand

    Dunagiri is about 50 kms. from Nainital and 15 kms. from Dwarahat. It is situated on an altitude of 8000 feet. Dunagiri Devi temple is quite popular in Kumao Himalayas and is considered as one of the powerful Shakti pithas.  The temple is located on a small hillock and there are about 500 steps to…

  • Dasha Maha Vidya Temples- Kamakya, Guwahati, Assam

    Kamakya temple at Guwahati is a unique temple by itself. It is located on a hillock called Nilachal hill, on the southern bank of river Brahmaputra. Kamakya temple is on peak of the hill, which hosts three of the ten deities of Dasha Mahavidya. The main Kamakya temple has three chambers. The western chamber is…

  • Dakshinamurthy Temple, Myladatturai, Tamil Nadu

    Dakashinamurthy temple is situated in Myladatturai/Mayavaram, about 40 kms from Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu. It is also called as Vallalar koil, Medha Dakashinamurthy or Guru Bhagavan temple. The temple is situated on the northern bank of river cauvery . The main deity is called Lord Vathanyeshwara in Sanskrit and popularly known as Vallalar in tamil. This…

  • Chinthapurni Devi Temple Una District, Himachal Pradesh

    Chintapurni Devi temple is situated in Una district of Himachal Pradesh. It has Himalayan Mountains to the North and Shivalik ranges to the East, bordering the state of Punjab. Chinthapurna Devi is also known as Chinnamasta Devi. As per legends, goddess Sati, self immolated in her father Daksha’s yajna. Then Shiva destroyed Daksha yajna and…

  • Chamunda Devi Temple- Kangra District, Himachal Pradesh

    Chamunda Devi temple is located in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, about 10 kms west of Palampur. The goddess is in the form of Pindi. The goddess is flanked by idols of Hanuman and Bhairav. Chamunda is also known as Chamundeshwari and Chamundi. She is the fearsome aspect of Devi and one of the seven…

  • Bucheshwara Temple – Koravangala, Hassan District, Karnataka

    Bucheshwara temple is located in the village of Koravangala which is around 10 kms from Hassan. It is a beautiful temple built in 12th century CE, of Hoysala Architecture. The temple was built in Hoysala Architectural style by a rich officer called Buchiraja (Buci), in the year 1173 CE, to celebrate the coronation of Hoysala…

  • Brahmapureshwar / Karaviranathar Temple, Tamilnadu

    The three celebrated Shaivite saints- Sambandar, Tirunavakkarasar and Sundarar have praised this temple in their hymns. Once the ladies of celestial world met Shiva and Parvathi at Mt.Kailash and sought a wedding boon. Lord Shiva himself made a Linga, installed at this place and advised the women to worship. They all worshipped accordingly and were…

  • Bakreshwar Shakti Peeta- Siori, Birbhum, West Bengal

    Bakreshwar is situated on Siori-Dubrajpur road in Birbhum district in West Bengal. According to mythology, during the wedding of Lakshmi and Narayana in Satya yuga, Indra insulted Muni Subrata. The saint got so enraged by humiliation, that his body got bent at eight places. Hence he was called Ashtavakra muni. Later Ashtavakra muni went to…