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Sri Mandeswara Swamy (Saneswara) Swamy Temple is a famous Siva Temple sitauted in  Mandapalli, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. Lord Siva is the main idol of the temple which was installed by Lord Sani (Saturn). Lord Sani atoned the sin of Brahmahatya by installing and adoring Lord Siva. As the idol of Siva has been installed by Lord Sani, Lord Eswara is popularly known as Saneswara.  Till oil Abhishekam is genereally done  to Lord Sani. As this Siva Linga has been installed by Lord Sani here Til oil Abhishekam is done to Siva Linga and no other Siva Linga will be having Til oil Abhishekam.  The Mandapalli Kshetra Mahtyam goes as follows: Once there were two demons namely Ashwatha and Pippala. They both used to move in disguise, Ashvatha in the form of a ravi Tree and Pippala in the form of Brahmana. Both used to destroy the yagnas performed by the rishis and they used to eat the Brahmanas who comes to the forest. Then the Rish...

Kunthi Madhava Temple is a famous  temple situated in Pithapuram, East Godavari District, Andhrapradesh. It is one of the ancient Vaishnava temples and of Pancha Madhava Divya Kshetram. It is nearer to the famous Kukkuteswara swamy temple in Pithapuram. Indra, the king of Gods killed a demon called Vruthrasura. To clean himself from the sin he created Pancha Madhavas and Kunthi Madhava temple is one of them. In Tretayuga Sita Rama and in Dwaparayuga Kunti Devi worshipped this Diety. The main diety of this temple is Sri Rajya Lakshmi Sametha Kunti Madhava Swamy. Other dieties in this temple are Sri Kodadevi, Alwars and Sri Ramanujacharyulu. The  Pancha Madhava temples are  Bindu Madhava Temple in Varanasi. it is near Ganga Ghat. Venu Madhava Temple in Prayaga Kunti Madhava Temple in Pitapuram Setu Madhava Temple in Rameswaram. It is near setu Madhava Theertham. Sundhara Madhava Temple in ThiruvananthPurM, Kerala. It is near Ana...

                                            Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple is situated in Kadiri mandal, Ananthapur District. This temple is one of  the prominent  Narasimha Swamy temples of South India. The idol Laksmi Narasimha swamy is Swayabhu ( came itself out of earth) with Ashta Bahu (eight hands). The temple is constructed during the period of Vijayanagara empire. The name of the town Kadiri has got importance with the temple. First, in the name of Khadiri, "kha" means the foot of Vishnu and "Adri" means a Hill.  Second, Kadiri is a type of wood and the dieties of the temple were made of this kadiri wood. Third, the deity was originally found under a Kadiri tree in the midst of jungle of Kadiri trees.  The Kadiri Stalapurana contains 767 Slokas in 13 chapters and it was published by temple authorities.  Acco...

About babies: I had a post previously about babies,their growth and development ( Enjoy...Struggle, Development and Growth of Baby). This is the continuation of that post. For the first six months babies lay down on the bed and roll over but cannot move. They learn and develop on their own with their commitment and dedication. From 7 months they can able to crawl, hold the furniture and cruise along the house. They reach near an object. They become more mobile.  They are on the way in exploring this new world. The later part of the first year is entirely opposite of what has been for the first six months. How excited and interested they are in exploring the things. They want to touch every object to feel the texture as everything is completely new for them and everything ends up in their mouth.  As they crawl they can able to find tiny objects on the floor, which we cannot see and they put them in their mouth. They clap hands if they find anything interest...

The River Godavari also called as River Gouthami links to River Ganga and Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva placed River Ganga on his head. The wife of Lord Shiva, Parvathi was angry on Shiva and want to separate Ganga from Lord Shiva. For this she asked her son Vinayaka to do the needful. There was a Rishi called Gouthama on Brahmagiri Mountain. He was lord shiva devotee and was given a boon so that the crops yield out within minutes of planting the seeds at any climatic conditions. With that boon he used have   food daily  for him as well for people who come to his Ashrama.  Once Gouthama planted some seeds in a place and started doing meditation. As it is as at that place crops yield out immediately.  Observing this Vinayaka  created one Maya Cow and kept it in the middle of the plants. The cow started eating all those plants.  After his meditation Gauthama came and saw the cow eating all the crops. Immediately he took one grass bl...

Today Adhika Ashadha Bahula Thrayodasi that is 13th day of 4th month according to Telugu Calender. This day Bruhaspathi ( Jupiter) enters Simha Rasi (Leo).     Godhavari Nadi Pushkaralu starts on this day. see other post   Origin and Importance of Pushkaralu in this blog. The Pushkaralu starts on this day the 14 th  July 2015 and ends on 25 th July 2015. This is the first 12 days of  Bruhaspathi (Jupiter) entering  into Simha Rasi. These 12 days are called Aadi Pushkaramulu. Especially for Godavari river  there will be Anthya Pushkaramulu which will be for the last 12 days of Bruhaspathi (Jupiter) in Simha Rasi (Leo). That is during 31st July 2016 to 11th August 2016. The Godavari river which took birth at Nasik in Maharashtra state as Antharvahini, comes out from Gomukham in Thrayambakam and travels through nearly 1000 miles touching both Andhra pradesh and Telangana state. From Nasik it travels thro...

On the  eve of coming Krishna Pushkaralu here is a post from my blog about the origin and importance of Pushkaralu. Rivers take the sins of humans when they take bath in them. The purification of those sins from river is called as Pushkaram.  Once a Brahmin named Pushakara who was concerned about the sins the rivers are taking from the humans  did penance asking lord Shiva for the Jalathva Siddhi. Pleased with his prayers lord Shiva granted him the boon. Lord Brahma prayed lord Shiva and took the Pushkara Tathva into his Kamandalam. The importance of Pushkara has reached all rivers and Bruhaspathi (Jupiter) asked pushkara for the Pushkaratathvam. But he  did not accepted it. With the prayers of Rivers and Bruhaspathi Brahma spoke with Pushkara. So he accepted to stay with Bruhaspathi when he enters particular Zodiac sign  of the respective River for the first 12 days and last 12 days in the rivers stated by Lord Brahma. ...