SRISAILAM

PATALAGANGA

It is 5 km away from the temple, and is accessible both by walk and vehicles. This is a branch of river Krishna flowing in the valley 500 feet deep from surface and famous for black round stones resembling lingas. Pilgrims invariably visit this for sacred bath believing in the Mahabharata's description"-bathing in it one obtains the reward of performing the Aswamedhayaga, and it liberates his whole a family," and then only they go to the temple for darsan. It can be reached by a flight of stairs built by Reddy dynasty in the fourteenth century. There are many stalls and hotels here supplying edibles and pooja materials. The round black stones found in abundance are collected for keeping in the little caskets and weaning them around their necks as object of worship by males and females too.

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