Anthili Lakshmi Narasimhar Temple

Anthili Lakshmi Narasimhar




 5 Quick facts

Moolavar Lakshmi Narasimhar, Shantha swaroopi.

2) Temple history:

Garuda once felt anxious that he was left out both in Gajendra moksham and Narasimha Vaibavam. He did severe penance in this place and God gave him dharsham as Nakshmi Narasimhar.

Lord Narasimhar made Garuda understand that it was not intentional to leave him during Gajendra moksham / Narasimha Vaibavam and it was due to urgency.
Garudar felt very happy and wished that Lakshmi narasimhar should stay in that place and bless all devotees.

3)  Anthili Temple timing and phone number

Temple Time : 7am-6pm
Priest: Srikanth Bhattar Mobile: 94867 89200

4) Temple Location

Anthili is 35kms West of Villupuram and 1km East of Arakandanallur/ ThiruKovilur Railway Station ( Villupuram-Mugaiyur-Thirukovilur route)

5) This is one of the 8 temples in Tamil Nadu, where Lord Narasimha provided darshan after the killing of Hiranya. 

 1) Singarakudi near Pondicherry/Cuddalore, 
2) Anthili near Thiru Kovilur, 
3) Parikkal near Kedilam, 
4) Sholingur
5) Nammakkal
6) Singaraperumal Koil near Chengalpet 
7) Sinthalavadi.
8) Poovarasan kuppam

Temple Map for Anthili, Parrikal, Poovarasankuppam, Singiri




Recently we visited this temple (July 7th 2011) and nearby Narasimhar temples.
Srikanth Bhattar(Mobile: 94867 89200 ) was very kind enough to arrange food in his own house.
He took care of all the things that was needed for our puja on that day.

Puja in Anthili Temple

Mangalagiri Panaka Narasimha



Mangalagiri Narasimhar

5 quick facts about Mangalagiri Narasimhar Temple
1)
Mangalagiri (Auspicious hill) is one of the 8 important mahakshetrams in India.

The eight places where Lord Vishnu manifested himself are (1) Sri Rangam (2) Srimushnam (3) Naimisam (4) Pushkaram (5) Salagamadri (6) Thothadri (7) Narayanasramam (8) Venkatadri. Thotadri is the present Mangalagiri.

This is one of the Panchanarasimhar kshetram (Vedadri, Vadapalli, Mattapalli, Mangalagiri, Ketavaram)

Mangalagiri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy

2) Panaka narasimha swamy temple on the top of the hill: you can see only narasimhars mouth opening about 15 cms. This offering is actually poured into the mouth of the rock cut image of the deity.
Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple on the foot of the hill: The garland of swami has 108 salagrama and a special counch.  This temple has a 11 storey raja gopuram
Gandala Narasimha Swamy is on the top of the hill there is no specific deity for God. You can lit lamps here and is believed to remove all sorrows. The lamp is visible from many nearby villages.


3)  The shape of the hill appears to be like an elephant, from all the direction.
No Ants inside temple premise, though all people offer jagary to god


4)
 The temple is believed to have been existed in all the four yugas. The Lord took amrutam (nectar) and cooled down in Krithayugam. The Lord said that he would be satisfied with ghee in Threthayugam, with milk in Dwaparayugam and with panakam(Jaggery water) in Kaliyugam.


5) Ksheera Vruksham (The milk tree) is famous here, for those who wish to be bless with child.
Galli gopuram Height of this temple is 153 feet and width is 49 feet is also very famous in this temple.

Mangalagiri Temple Gopuram

Temple Tank Lakshmi Pushkarini
The temple tank is known as the Lakshmi Pushkarini. Legend has it that this pushkarini was created by the Gods, combining the waters from several holy rivers of the land, and that Mahalakshmi (who came out of the milky ocean when it was churned by the gods and the asuras), bathed in this pushkarini and married Vishnu thereafter.

Mangalagiri Lakshmi Narasimha

Location
Mangalagiri is situated between Vijayawada and Guntur on Chennai-Kolkata national highway No.5. It is at 19 kilometres from Guntur, and 12 kilometres from Vijayawada.
 
Further reading

• http://www.mangalagiri.net/
• http://srividesikan.web.officelive.com/Documents/Mangalagiri.pdf

When the Jaggery water is actually poured into the mouth of the Lord, a gargling sound is clearly audible as if the Lord is actually drinking it and the sound becomes shriller and shriller as and when the Lord is drinking. The sound will come

to a stop after sometime and the balance of the jaggery water is thrown out. This phenomenon happens not once in a day but is a recurring feature during the course of the day as and when devotees offer panakam.