LORD CHENNAKESAVA OF BELUR

The cobblers living in Chennagiri and Basavapattana villages are getting the massage, in dream from the Lord himself to place a new pair, whenever the old one is worn off.Forthwith, they make a new pair and reach the garbhagriha with them to substitute, though they are not allowed inside on normal days. So they treat the deity as their tutelary god and call him Chennappa endearingly. Would not this wonder wonder at its emptiness before that wondrous Almighty's act! Another proof too corroborates this fact. This holy shrine does not have structural provision for separate deity on either side of the Mula Virat, but there is a separate individual shrine for Soumyanayaki, another name for Lakshmi to the South west of the main temple. So, the Danakanacharya's episode gains credence, though it lacks inscriptional proof.

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