Unexplored Temples of India

It was a long weekend and we were planning to spend it “Far From the madding Crowd”.

SO, the gears were ready and me Sunil and Amit started at a little early morning at 7’ 0 clock. Really friends the sound of roaring engine never felt so good, and finally the goggles went on with some rocking music and our plane (Hundai Verna ) was ready for a flier. Our plan was to visit some of the remote, unexplored basically lost temples of South India near Bangalore (Karnataka).

Our first Destination was famous Kotilingeshwara Temple. It falls in Kolar District of Karnataka approx. 130 KM by road from Bangalore. The engine was roaring to its best and we were leaving trail of vehicles behind us so that we can reach there early and after that continue our journey to some unexplored temples. Finally, we reached there by 10’0 clock, and the first view from road to temple mesmerized us proving our decision right to visit this temple.

This temple as of know contains 87 Lakhs Shivalingas and the plan is to reach out for 1 crore lingas. Apart from these lines and lines of shivalingas like a standing green crop there is one main shivalinga standing 130 mts tall and exactly opposite is a sculpture of Nandi falling no short of the lingas length.

The view was so good so eye catching that you could have spend almost whole day there, however, we did main pooja and after having some refreshments started for our next destination “Kaivara”.

Kaivara is famous for Kaivara temple and the scenic beauty and definitely the leading roads with standing crop and greenery made the journey pleasant. The temple is situated over the hill and hence the drive on the hill ways was really exciting. As we visited kaivara temple we saw the standing temple proving many laws of the nature wrong. The monument was so big with wonderful architecture and designs and many monuments of Mira, Sant Tukaram, etc. But, the main surprise was still to come.

There were stairs in the temple and the stairs lead us to a dark cave, where we have to enter half our backbone twisted and what we saw “A golden murti of Lord Vishnu” which is said to appear by itself in the cave. There was a big murti of lord “Narshimma”. The temple was totally a mesmerizing place with a pleasant ambience which fills your heart with new charisma……………..”

The big mountain peaks around the temple presented the people with such a great view that you can spend hours and hours viewing them.

These unexplored and somewhat lost temples of India prove to everyone that how strong, rich, charazmatic we were in our ancient times and when today most of the buildings falls in a short time these temples are still away from the reach of natural disasters and climatic changes. I have more about the journey as our next destination was “Kailash Giri” and “Kurudumale” temple, but will tell that in the next blog. However, after visiting these two places we were sure that there is definitely more excitement and pleasure to come our way………..