DRAKSHARAMAM

THE TEMPLE

This august sanctum is built in the centre of town and has three massive prakaras with entrances on four sides. Normally devotees enter through the Southern gate with a high pagoda over it. The courtyard here is vast and houses many minishrines and the temple office too. It is in the second prakara the devotees see a cluster of mantapas adorned with several adorable deities like Dunduganapathi, Virupaksha, Nataraja, Saptamatrukas, Mahishasura Mardini, Anjaneya, Subrahmanya, Chaturmukha Brahma, Vatukabhairava, Astadikpalakas, Navagrahas, Chandiswar, Suryeswar etc. The architecture of this temple dates back to 14th century, when the ruling kings particularly Anavema Reddy from Reddy dynasty beautified it with several additions, renovations and the like. Inscriptions and epigraphical details narrate the successive line of donors, who strove to raise the glory of this shrine by munificent donations and endownments till it was taken ever by the State Government. Realising its former glory and its present decadence, the Department of Archeology has undertaken it to renovate it. So it is now a protected monument slowly emerging to reach its former splendour, yet the progress is slow to speak the truth.

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