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Mullayanagiri Peak
Datta peeta
After Tipu Sultan taking over the State of Mysore, ‘Datta peeta’ was totally ‘Islamized’ ! There is a place called ‘Datta peeta’ about 30 kms away from Chikmangalur District in Karnataka where there is a mountain of 4000 feet height. There is a cave on this mountain. Dattatreya Swami did penance in this cave whichContinue reading “Datta peeta”
“Barrier”
Yagachi river is river in Karnataka India. It arrises in the Western Ghats of near the city of Chikkamagalur,flows through belur taluk,Hassan district,where it becomes a tributary of the Hemavathi river,which it enters near Gorur. It as a small tributary called “votehole or watehole”. Votehole is built on the stream near rajanahalli. The yagachi damContinue reading ““Barrier””
Hill of the Goddess (Deviramma betta)
Devigiri-Deviramma temple is located on top of this hill which is open only during Deepavali,there’s a saying that Mysore palace used to initiate celebration based on indication (lighting) from this hill.A significant deity in Karnataka,Deviramma is an incarnation of chamundeshwari or Durga,the fierce from of Shakti. Deviramma betta is named because of the temple ofContinue reading “Hill of the Goddess (Deviramma betta)”
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