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{{Short description|Hindu temple of the god Matsya in Bangalore, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}}
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'''Sri Matsya Narayana Temple''' is located in [[Bangalore]], in the state of [[Karnataka]], [[India]]. The temple is located in Omkar Ashram,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wikimapia.org/14834605/Omkar-Ashrama-Omkar-Hills|title=Omkar Ashrama - Omkara Hills}}</ref> in [[Omkar Hills]] [[Bangalore]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://temples360.blogspot.com/2020/07/matsya-narayana-temple-bangalore.html|title=Matsya Narayana Temple Bangalore}}</ref> The temple is located in Omkar Ashram, in Omkar Hills Bangalore.

== Importance ==
Sri Matsya Narayana Temple is the only temple in Karnataka dedicated to Sri Matsya Narayana Swamy. Matsya Avatar was the first incarnation of Hindu deity Lord [[Vishnu]] among the [[Dashavatara]] (Ten avataras) of Mahavishnu. [[Matsya]] means ‘fish’ in Sanskrit<ref name=matsya>{{cite web|title=Matsya Purana complete|url=http://www.dharmakshetra.com/avatars/Matsya%20Purans.html|publisher=dharmakshetra.com|accessdate=15 May 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220091813/http://www.dharmakshetra.com/avatars/Matsya%20Purans.html|archivedate=20 February 2014}}</ref><ref name=book/> and Matsya avatar is the incarnation of Lord Vishnu in the form of fish.<ref name=matsya/><ref>{{cite web|title=Manas: Indian Religions, Vishnu|url=http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Religions/Avatars/Vishnu.html|work=sscnet.ucla.edu/|accessdate=15 May 2014}}</ref> At the end of the first epoch (Satya Yuga), when the world was destroyed by a great flood Matsya Avatar was taken by Lord Vishnu to save humanity and the Vedas from the great deluge.<ref name=book>{{cite book|last=Glucklich|first=Ariel|title=The Strides of Vishnu : Hindu Culture in Historical Perspective: Hindu Culture in Historical Perspective|date=11 April 2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199718252|pages=155–156|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KtLScrjrWiAC&q=matsya+means+fish&pg=PA155|accessdate=15 May 2014|chapter=9 Maps and Myths in the Matsya Purana}}</ref>

Matsya Avatar is generally represented as a four-armed deity having the upper half of Maha Vishnu with four arms. Two arms hold shankam (conch shell) and chakram (divine discus) and the other two arms are in abhaya (divine protection) and varada (boon) and the lower half of Matsya (fish).

== Worship and festival ==
The temple is open for darshan from 7 AM to 12.30 PM and from 4.30 PM to 8PM on Monday to Saturday and on Sundays and holidays, the temple is open for darshan from 7 AM to 8 PM.

The Matsya Narayana temple celebrates the major annual festival on Matsya Jayanti. The annual festival of Matsya Jayanti is celebrated on Chaitra Shukla Paksha Tritya (Third day of the waxing moon period of the Chaitra month (March- April)) every year.

== References ==
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[[Category:Hindu temples in Bangalore]]
[[Category:Temples dedicated to incarnation of Vishnu]]

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