Temple III Udupi

The next day began with the visit of Udupi Sree Krishna temple. The Udupi temple is an old temple formed by Sri Madhavacharya. Once upon a time, Chandra - the king of stars came here to do some penances towards Lord Siva to absolve himself from the curse of Daksha Prajapathi. In Sanskrit, "Udu" means star and "pa" means king, and hence the name Udupi. It is belived that divine architect Vishwakarma created the image of Lord Krishna bearing a churn in his right hand and a string in his left hand, and Rukmini worshipped it everyday.

Then later on Madhavacharya got this image from a ship which was passing through this place. When the ship bearing this image was affected by stormy sea, he with is yogic powers calmed the sea and saved the ship. As a token of gratitude, the Captain of that ship presented this image to him and thus this image reached Udupi.The Lord is visible through a window having nine square holes in it. That window is called as 'Navagraha kindi'.

On the temple there are also sanctum sanctorium for Lord Subrahmanya, Hanuman etc. Also we saw a part of the kitchen, where a lot of pumkins are kept for cooking. Also we can hear the chanting of various 'Suktas' by many people who also does special offerings to God. The most beauty of that temple is the 'Goshala' - place where Cows are taken care. The temple look after many cows as cow is Lord Krisha's favourite animal.

After completing the temple visit, we took Darshan in the Chandramowleeswara temple, where it is belived that Chandra (moon) made penances to Lord Siva. Also we visited the Anantheswara temple situated nearby. Then that was the time for small kinds of shopping for all of us. We purchased some Sree Krishna idols, churns that was carried by Lord Krishna, and things like that. We also noted many students dressed like traditional priests, walking in a line. I think they are walking for some Vedic classess.

Then we came to Hotel Woodlands and had our breakfast there. There we realised the real taste of Udupi. Udupi is famous for delicious food. I can't express the taste of that food in words. It is much beyond that. After the food, we started the journey to Kollur.

Kollur - about that great place is next blog.... till then bye..bye..