Mangalagiri Panakala Swamy

There are a lot of wonderful things about Mangalagiri -

 

 # At the Upper Mangalagiri Swamy temple - there is a hole in the cave (at the GARBHA GUDI)- which has SWAYAMBHU SHANKU CHAKRA SALAGRAM's on both the sides of it's surface. This is covered with PANCHA LOHA mould of Sri Narasimha Swamy.

# People offer PANAKAM to Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy at Upper Mangalagiri. Priests pour PANAKAM into the mouth of Swamy's mould.

# While pouring the PANAKAM, liquid gulping sound of Swamy is clearly audible to the devotees.

# Regardless the size of the pot that any devotee takes the PANAKAM with, only half of it is accepted by Swamy. Other half would be given as PRASADAM back to the devotee.

# One of the relatives of local ZAMINDAR tried to test this (without devotion) and put his hand deep into the mouth of Lord Narasimha. His hand was wounded very badly as if a lion had eaten it.

# Upper Mangalagiri is full of sacred TEERTHAM's all over.

# At Upper Mangalagiri, near the temple of Goddess RajyaLakshmi Amma, there is a cave - through which RISHI's and DEVATHA's are believed to arrive at this temple and worship Swamy every evening.

# Prominent devotees / YOGI's like Sri Pada Vallabha Swamy (Avatar of Lord Dattatreya) and Sri Chaitanya Maha Prabhu, spent some days meditating at this temple.

# Lower Managalagiri temple was constructed during the time of PANDAVA's (DWAPARA YUGAM) and Swamy's idol had been consecrated by DHARMA RAJU.

# Lower Mangalagiri is very famous for it's architecturally delightful RAJAGOPURAM.

# The Conch (SHANKHU) which is being used in Lower Mangalagiri temple even today, is believed to have been used by Lord Sri Krishna.