Travel to Ahobilam during the 2008 ChAthurmAsyam Season

[Guest guest]

Dear SishyAs & Nrisimha BhakthAs ,

who might travel to Ahobilam

during the upcoming ChAthurmAsyam

( July 18- Sep 15 ,2008) :

 

1) From Chennai : go to Cuddapah by Train .

Take a bus to Allagadda ( 64 km away); from

Allagadda take another bus to Ahobilam , which

is 32 km away .

 

2) From Mumbai: Alight at Dhone Railway Station .

Proceed by bus to Ahobilam via Banganapalli and

Koilkuntla . Alternatively , You can go from Dhone

to Nandyal by Train , and catch a bus to Ahobilam

via Allagadda .

 

3) Those who come from Delhi would have to come to

Dhone Railway Station via Hyderabad and proceed from there

to Ahobilam .

 

4) Those who come from Calcutta , alight at Vijayawada ,

take a train to Nandyal and from there proceed to Ahobilam .

 

Natives of Andhra Pradesh and Frequent Travellers

are requested to suggest alternate routes as well as

approaches from Thirumala/Thiruppathi or Hyderabad

by Auto and the time it would take to travel from

these places to Ahobilam .

 

Thank you very much in advance ,

V.Sadagopan

 

 

 

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Srimate Sri Laksminrisimha Divya Paduka Sevaka

Srivan Satakopa Sri Narayana Yatindra Mahadesikaya Nama:

[Guest guest]

SrI:

 

Dear Sri Nrusimha BhakthAs :

 

A good friend shared his experiences on

traveling to Ahobilam via TaLappAkkam .

 

I think this information would be useful

to thsoe who plan on trips to Ahobilam

during the upcoming ChAthurmAsyam

season .

 

SrImatE RaamAnujAya Nama:

V.Sadagopan

 

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" Pranams!

 

Recently, I had the bhagyam of visiting Ahobilam on Narasimha

chaturdasi day. We (my son and I) hired a Toyota INNOVA (car-van) from

Hyderabad; we started at 7:15 am on May 17th, and reached Ahobilam at

12:45 pm after stopping for lunch in Allagadda). Ahobilam is located

25 km (from Allagadda)interior from Hyderabad- Tirupati Highway. From

Ahobilam, we started on May 20th at 7 am and reached Tallapaka (Sri

Annamacharya's birth place on the way to Tirupati) and reached

Tallapaka by 10:30 am after stopping for breakfast in Cudupha and

briefly stopping by in Vontimitta. We attended the opening cermony of

the 600th birth anniversary of Annamacharya; There is a new 108 feet

tall vigraham of Annamacharya, and a new Sri Venkateswara swamy

temple nearby. The vigraham and this new temple are located on (very

close to) the highway on the way to Rajampet (not in the exact

Tallapaka village) approximately 10 to 15 km from village of

Vontimitta. On the way to Tallapaka, we stopped at a very ancient Sri

Rama temple in Vontimitta. The great Telugu Poet Potana has dedicated

Telugu version of Srimath Bhagavatham to Lord Sri Rama at this Temple.

We started at 1:00 pm in Tallapaka and reached Tirupati by 3:00 pm (as

there was not much traffic). In short, it takes less than 5 hrs by car

from Tirupati to go to Ahobilam. Please don't miss the site of 108

feet tall beautiful vigraham of Sri Annamacharya. At least for this,

road travel is well worth it.

 

In Ahobilam, Sri BadriNarayan swamy the manager of Malola guest house

was very corteous and helpful. The 15 km, 1500 rupees jeep ride, to go

to Sri Pavana Narasimha swamy temple, is a very rough rough, but well

worth it. Sri Bargava Narasimha is accessible by auto ride (rough

ride). The trekking to Jwala and Malola is very very worth it, but

make sure to find when the priest would be available in Jwala. We were

very lucky that we could attend the abhishekam of Sri Jwala Narasimha

Swamy. After performing the puja, the same priest goes to Malola. We

took the guide suggested by the manager; The guide is necessary or

trekking as he would know the easiest path. The other five are easily

accessible on the way to Jwala or Pavana. Sri Badari swamy (mANAGER)

provided all the info.

 

Jai Sriman Narayana. With all glories to Lord Sri Venkateswara, I remain, "