Kaiwara-Kailasagiri-Muddenahalli-Devanahalli-Nandi Hills 29.06.2014

Posted by Poornima Belawaadi


 It all began with a lot of planning for almost a month ! Myself and 6 of my cousins finally decided to go for a day trip.Tata Sumo was all set picking up each one of them on the way.We left Bangalore by 7.30 and had tiffin break at K R Puram.
Morning Breakfast
Journey was accompanied by snacks(Biscuits by Adi, Cake by Archana , Avlakki by Harsha unluckily solen by monkeys at Kaiwara ! and chips by me ) and some funny talks.... Our first spot was Kaiwara.Kaiwara is a small town in the Chickballapur district  located northeast of Bangalore.Kaiwara is famous for Saint Narayanappa, popularly known as Kaiwara Thatayya in Kannada and Telugu, who was a bilingual poet. He lived there during the last half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century. Narayanappa prophesized and composed Keertanas (poems in praise of the Lord in different forms) in praise of Amara Narayanaswamy, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu, in both Kannada and Telugu languages.
Kaiwara Temple

Inside KaiwaraTemple

Kaiwara

Kaiwara Taataiyya
After visiting the temple we moved towards Yoginarayana Mutt: Ashram dedicated to the Thatayya where he was buried alive as a ritual of Jeevasamadhi. Thatayya did all his meditation in a cave which is 3 km from Kaiwara and they call it as Gavi. During his period of meditation, a tiger and a leopard used to guard him and few years later he was enlightened.The cave was beautiful surrounded by greenary and hills around.We took some funny pics there and also had raw mangoes.It was almost 9.15 AM by the time we left Kaiwara and reached Kailsagiri at 10.00 AM.
Yoginarayana Mutt
YoginarayanaMutt


Taataiyya's meditation place
The other attraction of Chintamani is the temple at Kailasagiri. This is a famous cave temple located on the hill. There are three shrines in Kailasagiri dedicated to Lord Shiva (Four faced), Goddess Parvathi and Lord Ganesha.
Kailasagiri cave

After the darshana , we had to leave for our next destination - Shree Nakoda Avati 108 Parshwanth Jain Temple at Devanahalli.It was a beautiful temple . Marvellous architecure and very neatly maintained.Though photography was probhited we managed to click few followed by lunch in the lunch hall at temple premises.
Jain temple architecture

Bhagavan Mahaveera
Jain temple Devanahalli
Jain temple
Temple premises
Temple lunch

 

It was 1.30 by the time we left Devanahalli with munching watermelons on the way and we reached Muddenahalli -Birth place of Sir  M.Visweswaraih, one of the India's most accomplished engineers. He was a recipient of the Indian Republic's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955.There is a memorial of Sir M. V. located on the family-owned land at Muddenahalli, with the Nandi Hills as a backdrop. The museum was renovated in view of 150th Sir MV Birth ceremonies conducted on September 15, 2010. The memorial exhibits his awards, titles and personal belongings, including his living room, spectacles, cups, his copy of the Webster's dictionary, and a block with which his visiting cards were printed. Models of the Krishna Raja Sagar dam, which Visvesvaraya designed and supervised the construction of, are also exhibited. The memorial is located adjacent to his house, which was refurbished and regarded as a temple by the locals.
Sir.M Vishveshwaraiah Samadhi

Sir M Vishveshwaraiah's house-Muddenahalli
From there we headed towards Bhoganandeeshwara temple just below Nandi Hills.The Bhoganandisvara temple is architecturally one of the most important specimens of Dravidian order datable to circa ninth to fifteenth century A.D. Enclosed in its own prakara measuring 112.8m x 76.2m with double mahadvara, this complex consists of twin temples dedicated to Siva as Bhoganandisvara (north) and Arunachalesvara (south). Between the two is a small intervening shrine.Each temple consists of a garbhagriha, a sukanasi and a navaranga. Both sukanasi and navaranga are provided with sculptured jalis. Both temples have individual nandimandapas in front. In between the two shrines is a kalyanamandapa built of black stone intricately carved with creepers and birds, even excelling the meticulously worked Hoysala specimens. The prakara has two Devi shrines and other related structures like vasantamandapa tulabharamandapa and a square stepped tank.
Bhoganandeeshwara Temple premises

Bhoganandeeshwara Temple Entrance

Inside the temple
Kalyani

With tons of photo sesions, we left to Nandi Hills accompanied by rain showers.What a weather it was ! Perfect time to pary.. cake cutting, view from hill top followed by the sunrise/sunset  view point and a park walk. Beautiful atmosphere it was! Loved it... Finally we left Nandi hills by 6.30 and reached Bangalore at 9 PM..
Nandi Hills Sunset point

Celebration time

@ Sunset point
Thanks to Archana and my sister for the treat in her bakery ! Thanks to Bhavana, Harsha, Ramkumar, bro Mohan and Aditya ..What else can i say ? Awesome journey ... awesome trip !

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