Temple X: Kateel

From Kumbakshi we directed towards Kateel which is a beautiful place situated near Mangalore. The way is enriched with greenary and hills and that journey was a wonderful experience. We reached the place by 1.30 PM and we rushed to the temple. We saw that a small elephant is ringing a huge bell with its tusk. We all wnt inside the temple and that was the time of "Mangalarathi". After the darshan of Goddess Durga, we all roam around that area for sometime.

Kateel temple is located in the middle of river Nandini. The river is coming from Kanakagiri and joins the sea on Pravanje. The name Kateel is a joint form of two words 'Kati' means centre (centre of the river) and 'illa' means area. The legend says that Saint Jabali cursed the daughter of Kamadhenu, Nandini and hence Nandini is flowing as a river in earth. The remady for the curse is that Goddess Durga will give blessings to her later. The area is full of greenary. Thousands of devotees are coming to this temple everyday. The temple management is distributing free lunch for all the devotees.

We all had our lunch in the temple and then left from Kateel. We then reached Mangalore by around evening 4 O'clock and directly went to Kadroli Gokarnanatha temple. It is a temple built recently with modern architecture. A huge Marriage hall, a garden, a pond etc. are main attractions here. All are newly built and still the construction going on. You will be able to see two huge elephant staues in front of the temple. Once you enter inside, you can see Lord Siva's family followed by a huge statue of Lord Nandikeshwara. Then Sree Krishna advising Gita to Arjuna is also carved over there.

From there we left immediately and came to the railway station. Everyone except me and my cousin left from there to Kerala by train and both of us came back to Bangalore with a lot of immemmorable events going on in our mind.

A really wounderful journey through the soul of Western Ghats of the great state Karnataka!!!!