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 Hedathale
Sri Lakshmikantha Perumal Temple
 The
temple is dedicated to Lakshmikantha Perumal. It was built in 1182 CE, It
was built by Hoysala's, This is known
as Thrikutachala Style of temples . Thrikuta Means three. The Pradhana
Sannidhi is of Sri Lakshmikantha Perumal and to the right is Lakshmi
Narasimha Perumal Sannidhi and to the left is Venugopala Perumal Sannidhi.
Hoysalas built this type of Thrikutachala Temple in five different places
they are Hedathale, Holenarsipur, Hospete near K R Pet, Mavinakere
and one more place. Each place the Importance and first Pooja is given to
different deities. In Hedathale it is Lakshmikantha Perumal , In
Holenarsipur it is
 Lakshminarasimhan
in K R Pet it is Venugopala. Now we enter the temple go inside right in
front of us we get Lakshmikantha Perumal what a radiant face, Then once
you have darshan you come out of Sannidhi you will find Lord
Lakshminarasimhan The Moorthy is very nice and you will not feel to come
out of this Sannidhi
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Then Bag opposite to this Sannidhi is Sanidhi of Venugopala
Then if you come out right in front of you you will
find a beautiful Idol of Andal, What a radiant beauty,
 I
have not seen any other beautiful idol of Andal. The specialty of the
particular Andal Idol is while the sculpturing was going on , My
Abhimana Guru H H Sri Ranga Priya Maha Desikan Swamigal of Ashtaanga Yoga
VignyAna Mandiram personally supervised the moorthy and it is his Ubhayam
to the temple. Please have a look at this finely sculptured moorthy of
Andal. Then We have Idol of Vishwaksenar, Namalwar, Ramanuja Vedanta
Desikan etc. Ustava Moorthy of Ramanuja is once again the Ubhayam of H H
Sri Ranga Priya Maha Desikan. Now once again we are enter the Moola
Sthanam of Srikantha Perumal aka Lakshmikantha Perumal, Before that H H
Sri Ranga Priya Maha Desikan used to say there are Dwadasha Type of
Moorthy's. To
 identify
different morthys there are different postures for example Srinivasa there
are two arms with
Katka Hastha , Lakshmikantha Four arms , Shanku Chakra in Samasarna Mudra
in Front ( in reverse order ) and Padma and Gada at the back. The
specialty of Samasarna Mudra is that If a Acharyan Does Samasarna
then he holds the Shanku in his right hand and Chakra in in his left hand,
then only while doing Samasarna he can place the Shanku in your Right hand
and Chakra in left hand. So here in Hedathale Lakshmikantha Perumal also
has Samasarna Mudra. Like this Mudra you can find only in Pancha Narayana
Kshetram established by our Udayavar and King Vishnuvardhan, The Pancha Narayana Kshetram
are Sri Thiru Narayana Temple at Melkote Nambi Narayana Temple at
Thondanur Keerthi Narayan temple at Talakad, Veera Narayana temple at
Belur and Vijaya Narayana at Gadag ( I have seen Samasarna Mudra at
Thondanur , Talakad And Belur ). Then if you come out You can find Chavadi
or Hadinaru Mukha Chavadi ( 16 Point Chavadi) , Chavadi is nothing but big
Hall. The temple an the Chavadi was built by Then Pallegara Bhimana Dhanda
Nayaka , There is a interesting story behind it. They say Bhimana Dhanda
Nayaka had sixteen daughters, and he wanted to talk to all the sixteen
daughter and sixteen Son in laws. In Then if you for minute assume you are
Bhimana Dhanda Nayaka's wife who will sit along with her husband then she
can see all her sixteen daughter's who are sitting with their
husbands in all sixteen points. This you will understand better if you sit
there practically, It was very interesting when Archakar narrated this to us,
Archakar also informed me that few years back the
temple was in ruins and all the anti social elements of village used to
misuse the temple. Then One of the two great sons which Hedathale village
has Produced H H Sri Rangapriya Swamigal took initiative and
requested
Sriman Gopal and Venu Srinivasan of T V S company
to help and restore the sanithya of this beautiful temple., Even
thought this temple is Heritage site under Archeological Survey of India
and State government they did not care much. As usual our Sriman Gopal and
Venu Srinivasan of T V S company gave a helping hand and they
helped in building the temple once again and restore its old glory.
Archakar informed all the stones were numbered and and then temple was
rebuilt. Now you can have wonderful Darshan of these perumal due to Sriman
Gopal and Venu Srinivasan of T V S company . In Karnataka in Tumkur
TVS people have restored the Devarayana Durg Temple and At Sathyagalam at
the request of
H H Sri Rangapriya Swamigal they have donated a large sum for Nitya
Aradhanam. May their tribe increase.
It will not be out of place to mention that my Late Uncle S. Parthasarathy
Ayyangar , ML IP, Former Commissioner of Police - Madras Presidency and I
Inspector General of Police was a good friend of Founder of TVS group
Sriman Sundaram Iyengar.
Sriman Narayan who is the Archakar of the Temple is
Nephew of H H Sri Rangapriya Swamigal , their house is close by temple and
he resides in Poorva Ashram House of H H Sri Rangapriya Swamigal , The
beauty is Temple is Flanked by two illustrious sons of Hedathale
namely H H Sri Ranga Guru and H H Sri Rangapriya Swamigal .
The Temple Timings are Daily Morning 8.00 Am to 12.00 Pm and Evening 5.30
Pm to 8.30 Pm.
The contact Details are:
Sri Narayan ,
Archakar,
Sri Lakshmikantha Swamy Temple,
Hedathale : 571001
Mysore District,
Tel:08221 - 235457
How to reach : Go to Mysore then take Ooty road, reach Nanjangud, Take
Chamrajnagar Road, travel towards Badanawal then once you reach Badanawal
please take right turn and reach Embargala and then you will reach
Hedathale , in the whole it may be 35 Kms from Mysore.
To read about two Illustrious sons of Hedathale
please click here
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