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| district = [[Karnataka]] | |||
| location = Vasantapura | |||
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| deity = Lord [[Vishnu]] | |||
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== | '''Vasantha Vallabharaya Temple''', located in Vasantapura in [[Bangalore]],[[Karnataka]], [[India]], is a [[temple]] dedicated to the [[Hindu deities|deity]] Vasantha Vallabharaya, the [[Hindus|Hindu]] god [[Vishnu]]. It dates back to the [[Chola dynasty]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Vallabharaya's abode Vasantapura |url=http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/1307-lost-villages-bengaluru |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017100356/http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/1307-lost-villages-bengaluru |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-10-17 }}</ref> | ||
==Overview== | |||
Situated on a [[hillock]] south of Bangalore city in Vasantapura, the Vasantha Vallabharaya Temple, as history records it, belongs to the times of Rishi [[Mandavya]], who, according to sthalapurana, is said to have built the shrine.<ref name=Temple>{{cite web |last=Iyengar |first=Sampige Srinivasa |title=Vasanthapuram Temple near Bangalore City |url=http://www.indiadivine.org/audarya/sri-vaishnava-forum/182890-vasanthapuram-temple-near-bangalore-city.html |publisher=India Divine Org |accessdate=25 June 2013}}</ref> | |||
According to sthalapurana, Bangalore in the ancient times was called Kalyanpuri and the small town Vasantapura, where, the Vasantha Vallabharaya shrine "devoted to Vishnu" is located, was a site in the midst of a jungle where holy sages [[Meditation|meditated]]. With the passage of time, the greenery was gradually replaced by tilled land. It is said many tirthas (springs) lay on the dirt track that went to the temple site. Those tirthas were considered holy as ''Lord Vallabharaya'', "another incarnation of Vishnu", bathed in them after his marriage to Goddess [[Lakshmi]] at Narayana Vana, close to [[Tirupati (city)|Tirupathi]]. Today, the road to the temple is paved and only two springs called the Devatirtha and Vasantatirtha remain. Sadly, two of those tirthas were filled with soil for real estate work. It is also apparent that the temple area has suffered owing to the steady growth in the civic works.<ref name=Krupa>{{cite web |last=Ranjangam |first=Krupa |title=Vallabharaya's abode Vasantapura |url=http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/1307-lost-villages-bengaluru |publisher=Citizens Matters |accessdate=1 September 2013}}</ref> | |||
Considered to be erected during the Chola dynasty, the ancient temple history also carries the story of Rishi [[Mandavya]]'s finding of a [[Svayambhu]] image of Vallabharaya at the site where the shrine presently sits.{{Citation needed|date=September 2013}}<!-- Empty reference <ref name=Krupa>{{cite web}}</ref> --> | |||
==See also== | |||
*[[List of Chola Temples in Bangalore]] | |||
*[[Kumaraswamy Layout]] | |||
== Reference List == | |||
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[[Category:Hindu temples in Bangalore]] | |||
[[Category:Chola architecture]] | |||