Vijayawada - Venkateswaraswamy Aalayam

This centuries old city with legendary background that brought fame As a famous Triputi, where daivam, kshetram, thirtham vies with one another for supremacy boasts of many places of worship imbued some sort of mysticism or other. There are as many as one dozen ancient temples that have fantastic and exotic legends. Each enthralls and bends heads in veneration, if the whole back ground is acquainted with some sort of evidence or the other, which the devout bhaktas take it with mute acceptance and enjoy bliss. Here is one lying in the Brahmin street of ONE town had such a fantastic story. Here this Sun's rays fall at the feet of the archamurti during mornings believed to be the Sun God's obeisance to him. Orthodox await the moment and pin the Sun-god in offering worship, but the highly advanced attributing it to superb architectural feat confine themselves to four walls shutting the doors bolted behind. Another belief is that this archamurti bearing striking resemblance to the one installed at Mailavaram temple happened to, be one of the twins and hence such exactness in every external appearance. Moreover, the deities directed the pious men in the bygone past to install them in two places - one here and the other at Mailavaram. Overwhelmed by the fantastic account, the devout add to their faith some more ritualistic worship. This temple being an old one is complete in itself with all the essential parts. Daily agamic puja is offered and annual festivals witness the theistic fervour touching the meridian.

It lies in One town of Vijayawada, accessible by walk or cycle rickshaws from railway station.

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