Ahobilam

March 9, 2005

Dear All : These pictures of Ahobilam taken by

Sriman Sethuraman are indeed enthrealling .

V.Sadagopan

-

Sethuraman, Aravind (S.)

Dear All,

I have pictures of divine spots taken during our trip to Ahobilam.

Here are the photos --

http://www.pbase.com/svami/divine_spots

1 This is the cave inside which Prahalada learned veda lessons from Perumal.

There is a vigraham of Yoga Nrsimha...He is not counted as one of the nine

Nrsimhas. The climb is tough and the path is very narrow. A couple of bats pose

a hindrance inside this cave. Only four people can be seated at a time.

2. The Gopuram of Ugra Narasimha facing west. The mountain to the left is the

Vedathri (which houses Malola and Varaha to the east, Prah. Padi on its top and

Bhargava on the other side of the slope to its north), to the right is the

Garudathri (housing Ugra, Kaarnja on the west - to our back side and Pavana to

its south on the other side of the slope) The lenghty one at the background is

Asalachayameru housing Jwala and Ukku sthambam. There is a 3000 ft high and 3 km

wide deep gorge between Vedathri and Asalachayameru - you can see it in Photo #

4. The path to the left of the temple compound takes us to the trekking region.

3 In the entrance of Chathravata Narasimha - you can see Perumal's left hand

putting thaaLam for the music of two gandharvaas - Haahaa and Hoohoo. Thats why

we say 'he is singing aaha oho' if one is singing very nicely. The mandapam

which has open space and only four pillars, echoes when we clap and the echo

resembles the sound produced when a veena string is triggered. You can see Prah.

Varada gopuram if you climb the small ladder seen to the right....(Taller guys

like me can see while standing itself)

4 This is the pillar from which He came out....See the fluttering flag and the

deep gorge. The route to Jwala crosses the gorge as a carving (thinly visible

below the cliff - in the black region)

5 Water coming from the cave is thick and red in colour, but when taken in hand,

is colourless...this is where He washed His hands after the samhAram

6 See the thick grove of Kaaranja trees behind. Lovely forest. This is on our

way to Mel Ahobilam

7 To the left is Varaha Narasimhar with His nose pointed upwards ('uththu

pArkkaNum') to the right is Lakshmi Narasimhar pradhistai to pacify the Former's

ugram.

dAsan,

S.Aravind

August 7, 2008

Dear Swamy,

We are planning to go to Ahobilam on 14.08.08 from Chennai by train upto Cuddapah after that we are planning to take a taxi or travels car up to Ahobilam.

Anybody knows Travels telephone number at Cuddapah?

Please help us.

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan

Regards,

H.Anand

August 11, 2008

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SrI:

Dear All who are planning atrip

to Ahobilam :

FYI.

V.Sadagopan

- narasimhan padmanaban

group ; Oppiliappan

Cc: shree1_foru

Monday, August 11, 2008 4:39 AM

Re: Fw: [sri ramanuja] Ahobilam

Sri: Dear Members, We[10] were in AHOBILAM on 4th and 5th august 2008 We left by 1028 MUMBAI MAIL on 3rd AUGUST[departure time 22.50 hrs CHENNAICENTRAL] PL contact Sri BADRI, MANAGER ,SRI AHOBILA MUTT 08519 252045 for accomodation at SRI AHOBILA MUTT as well as car arrangement from CUDAPPA---TARIFF 800/ for INDICA CAR PER DAY plus DIESEL EXPENSES and 1300/ PER DAY for SCORPIO plus diesel expenses[WORKS OUT TO APPROXIMATELY 4200 for SCORPIO and 2200 for INDICA for 2 days] Sriman BADRI will give you the car number[he knows TAMIL] and the car will be waiting for you just outside CUDAPPA STATION ON 4-8 -08 we were there for ABHIGAMANA AARADHANAM and visited CHATRAVADA, YOGANANDA and BHARGAVA NARASIMHA SHRINES in the morning and after IJJYA AARADHANAM and THATHEYARADHANAM at SRI AHOBILA MUTT we left for PAVANA NARASIMHAR SANNIDHI in A LOCAL JEEP[ cost 150 per head and minimum of 8 persons] THE RIDE IS very rough and THRILLING and it takes nearly 2 hours oneway and in the night we visited LOWER AHOBILAM TEMPLE where the UTSAVA MOORTHIS of all the 9 SANNIDHIS except BHARGAVA NARASIMHA UTSAVAR [which is in PUSHKARAM] is worshipped ON 5-8-08 we visited AHOBILA, JWALA ,MALOLA ,KRODA[VARAHA] and KARANJA NARASIMHAR SANNIDHIS WE BOARDED 1027 MUMBAI CHENNAI MAIL at CUDAPPA at 22 HRS and reached CHENNAI 5 AM 6-8-08 it is better to avoid SATURDAYS and SUNDYS AS HEAVY RUSH IS THERE BETTER GO IN GROUPS of atleast 6 or more TO MINIMISE EXPENSES PER HEAD dhasan, N.PADMANABAN

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--- On Thu, 7/8/08, senthil b <b_senthil2002 wrote:

senthil b <b_senthil2002 Fw: [sri ramanuja] Ahobilam"group" <oppiliappan >Cc: shree1_foruDate: Thursday, 7 August, 2008, 9:04 AM

SrI:If any knows the details of travels(car) at Cuddapah to Ahobilam, kindly help in sending the detailsadiyEn,senthil.b--- On Thu, 7/8/08, Shree for u <shree1_foru@ > wrote:

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