9 Real Architectural Wonders That Inspired Disney Movies
Yes, even Disney needs somewhat supernatural inspiration,
infrequently. Artists frequently look to genuine engineering structures
as wellsprings of motivation for the fantastic strongholds, royal
residences and urban communities highlighted in the movies that
enthralled your adolescence. A hefty portion of these spots are presently prevalent destinations
that are open for going by and visiting, also photograph opportunities.
You can visit these charming areas year-round, so begin arranging your
Disney journey now.
1. Elsa’s ice palace in Frozen was inspired by the Hotel de Glace.
The Hotel de Glace, which is constructed out of ice every winter in Quebec City, Canada, was used as visual inspiration for Elsa’s ice palace in Frozen. The hotel is open for business January through March every year. During the 2014 season, the hotel even offered a special Frozen-themed suite where patrons could experience a day in the life of Arendelle royalty.
2. The Sultan’s palace in Aladdin was inspired by the Taj Mahal.
Aladdin was set in the fictional town of Agrabah located
near the Arabian Peninsula, but the Sultan’s palace was a loose
interpretation of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Find out more about
visiting here.
3. Prince Eric’s castle in The Little Mermaidwas inspired by the island community of Mont Saint-Michel.
Mont Saint-Michel
is an island in Normandy, France that features a strong aquatic
element, with an abbey, monastery, and surrounding village. You can
visit the island sites year-round.
4. The Queen’s castle from Snow White was inspired by Segovia Castle
Segovia Castle in Segovia, Spain was the location behind the Queen’s castle inSnow White. You can visit year round, find out more here.
5. The royal castle in Sleeping Beauty was inspired by Neuschwanstein Castle.
The royal castle from Sleeping beauty was based on Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria, Germany. You can visit year-round: learn more on their website.
6. The castle in Tangled was also inspired by the island community of Mont Saint-Michel.
Glen Keane, the supervising animator and executive producer of Tangled has said in a junket
that Mont-Saint Michel was “so very fairytale like,” so it’s no wonder
the structure has been such a long-running source of inspiration for the
homes of Disney princesses.
7. The city of Atlantis was inspired by Angkor Wat.
For Atlantis, Disney took architectural inspiration from a
combination of areas, including loosely the temple complex of Angkor Wat
in Angkor, Cambodia. “If it was truly a Tower-of-Babel, advanced
civilization, that meant its architecture, language and culture must
have inspired all the other great cultures of the world. That was our
beginning of taking Mayan, Cambodian and Indian architecture, and
devolving them, almost, into what Atlantis was like,” producer Don Hahn has said on the combination of architectural inspiration. Find out about visiting here.
8. Pacha’s village in The Emperor’s New Groove was inspired by Machu Picchu.
Pacha’s hillside village was inspired by the ruins of Machu Picchu in Cusco, Peru. Not to mention that Emperor Kuzco was named after the city of Cusco. Plan your trip here.
9. DunBroch Castle in Brave was inspired by Dunnottar Castle.
Dunnottar Castle in Stonehaven, Scotland was the inspiration behind the royal castle in Brave. Find out how to visit here.
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
History of Valentine’s Day
Each year on February 14th, many people exchange cards,
candy, gifts or flowers with their special “valentine.” The day of
romance we call Valentine’s Day is named for a Christian martyr and
dates back to the 5th century, but has origins in the Roman holiday Lupercalia.
Every February 14, across the United States and in other places around
the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones,
all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this mysterious saint, and
where did these traditions come from? Find out about the history of this
centuries-old holiday, from ancient Roman rituals to the customs of
Victorian England.
The Legend of St. Valentine
The history of Valentine’s Day–and the story of its patron saint–is
shrouded in mystery. We do know that February has long been celebrated
as a month of romance, and that St. Valentine’s Day, as we know it
today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition.
But who was Saint Valentine, and how did he become associated with this
ancient rite?
The
Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named
Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred. One legend contends
that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome.
When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers
than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men.
Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and
continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When
Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to
death.
Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for
attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons, where they
were often beaten and tortured. According to one legend, an imprisoned
Valentine actually sent the first “valentine” greeting himself after he
fell in love with a young girl–possibly his jailor’s daughter–who
visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that
he wrote her a letter signed “From your Valentine,” an expression that
is still in use today. Although the truth behind the Valentine legends
is murky, the stories all emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic
and–most importantly–romantic figure. By the Middle Ages, perhaps thanks to this reputation, Valentine would become one of the most popular saints in England and France.
Origins of Valentine’s Day: A Pagan Festival in February
While some believe that Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the middle
of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine’s death or
burial–which probably occurred around A.D. 270–others claim that the
Christian church may have decided to place St. Valentine’s feast day in
the middle of February in an effort to “Christianize” the pagan
celebration of Lupercalia. Celebrated at the ides of February, or
February 15, Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus,
the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus
and Remus.
To begin the festival, members of the Luperci, an order of Roman
priests, would gather at a sacred cave where the infants Romulus and
Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by a
she-wolf or lupa. The priests would sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and
a dog, for purification. They would then strip the goat’s hide into
strips, dip them into the sacrificial blood and take to the streets,
gently slapping both women and crop fields with the goat hide. Far from
being fearful, Roman women welcomed the touch of the hides because it
was believed to make them more fertile in the coming year. Later in the
day, according to legend, all the young women in the city would place
their names in a big urn. The city’s bachelors would each choose a name
and become paired for the year with his chosen woman. These matches
often ended in marriage.
Valentine’s Day: A Day of Romance
Lupercalia survived the initial rise of Christianity and but was
outlawed—as it was deemed “un-Christian”–at the end of the 5th century,
when Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine’s Day. It was not
until much later, however, that the day became definitively associated
with love. During the Middle Ages, it was commonly believed in France
and England that February 14 was the beginning of birds’ mating season,
which added to the idea that the middle of Valentine’s Day should be a
day for romance.
Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages,
though written Valentine’s didn’t begin to appear until after 1400. The
oldest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written in
1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in
the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt.
(The greeting is now part of the manuscript collection of the British
Library in London, England.) Several years later, it is believed that
King Henry V hired a writer named John Lydgate to compose a valentine note to Catherine of Valois.
Typical Valentine’s Day Greetings
In addition to the United States, Valentine’s Day is celebrated in Canada, Mexico,
the United Kingdom, France and Australia. In Great Britain, Valentine’s
Day began to be popularly celebrated around the 17th century. By the
middle of the 18th, it was common for friends and lovers of all social
classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes, and
by 1900 printed cards began to replace written letters due to
improvements in printing technology. Ready-made cards were an easy way
for people to express their emotions in a time when direct expression of
one’s feelings was discouraged. Cheaper postage rates also contributed
to an increase in the popularity of sending Valentine’s Day greetings.
Americans probably began exchanging hand-made valentines in the early
1700s. In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland began selling the first
mass-produced valentines in America. Howland, known as the “Mother of
the Valentine,” made elaborate creations with real lace, ribbons and
colorful pictures known as “scrap.” Today, according to the Greeting
Card Association, an estimated 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards are sent
each year, making Valentine’s Day the second largest card-sending
holiday of the year. (An estimated 2.6 billion cards are sent for Christmas.) Women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines.
History’s Great Romantics
From poets and presidents to kings and courtesans,
history is filled with great romances and timeless love stories. This
Valentine's Day, discover some of history's most famous tales of love
and loss. From historic figures like Casanova, whose name has become
synonymous with romance, to India's Shah Jahan, who built one of the
world's most manificent buildings to honor his wife, to modern love
affairs like that of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, history's
romantics have long had a place in the popular imagination.
Sappho
Much
uncertainty surrounds the life story of the celebrated Greek lyric poet
Sappho, a woman Plato called “the tenth Muse.” Born around 610 B.C. on
the island of Lesbos, now part of Greece, she was said to have been
married to Cercylas, a wealthy man. Many legends have long existed about
Sappho’s life, including a prevalent one — now believed to be untrue —
that she leaped into the sea to her death because of her unrequited love
of a younger man, the sailor Phaon. It is not known how much work she
published during her lifetime, but by the 8th or 9th century Sappho’s
known work was limited to quotations made by other authors. In the
majority of her poems, Sappho wrote about love — and the accompanying
emotions of hatred, anger and jealousy — among the members of her
largely young and female circle. Sappho gave her female acolytes
educational and religious instruction as part of the preparation for
marriage; the group was dedicated to and inspired by Aphrodite, the
Greek goddess of love and beauty. Her focus on the relationships between
women and girls has led many to assume that Sappho was a lesbian — a
word derived from the island and the communities of women that lived
there — but it is also true that the existence of strong emotions and
attractions between members of the same sex was considered far more
common and less taboo than in later years.
Vatsyayana, author of the Kama Sutra
This
ascetic, probably celibate scholar who lived in classical India (around
the 5th century A.D.) is an unlikely candidate to have written
history’s best known book on erotic love. Little is known about
Vatsyayana’s life, but in his famous book — actually a collection of
notes on hundreds of years of spiritual wisdom passed down by the
ancient sages — he wrote that he intended the Kama Sutra as the ultimate
love manual and a tribute to Kama, the Indian god of love. Though it
has become famous for its sections on sexual instruction, the book
actually deals much more with the pursuit of fulfilling relationships,
and provided a blueprint for courtship and marriage in upper-class
Indian society at the time. In addition to his classic work on love,
Vatsyayana also transcribed the Nyaya Sutras, an ancient philosophical
text composed by Gautama in the 2nd century B.C. that examined questions
of logic and epistemology. The Kama Sutra has been translated into
hundreds of languages and has won millions of devotees around the world.
Shah Jahan
Emperor
of India from 1628 to 1658, Shah Jahan has gone down in history for
commissioning one of history’s most spectacular buildings, the Taj
Mahal, in honor of his much beloved wife. Born Prince Khurram, the fifth
son of the Emperor Jahangir of India, he became his father’s favored
son after leading several successful military campaigns to consolidate
his family’s empire. As a special honor, Jahangir gave him the title of
Shah Jahan, or “King of the World.” After his father’s death in 1627,
Shah Jahan won power after a struggle with his brothers, crowning
himself emperor at Agra in 1628. At his side was Mumtaz Mahal, or
“Chosen One of the Palace,” Shah Jahan’s wife since 1612 and the
favorite of his three queens. In 1631, Mumtaz died after giving birth to
the couple’s 14th child. Legend has it that with her dying breaths, she
asked her husband to promise to build the world’s most beautiful
mausoleum for her. Six months after her death, the deeply grieving
emperor ordered construction to begin. Set across the Jamuna River from
the royal palace in Agra, the white marble fade of the Taj Mahal
reflects differing hues of light throughout the day, glowing pink at
sunrise and pearly white in the moonlight. At its center, surrounded by
delicate screens filtering light, lies the cenotaph, or coffin,
containing the remains of the Shah’s beloved queen.
Giacomo Casanova
The
name “Casanova” has long since come to conjure up the romantic image of
the prototypical libertine and seducer, thanks to the success of
Giacomo Casanova’s posthumously published 12-volume autobiography,
Histoire de ma vie, which chronicled with vivid detail — as well as some
exaggeration — his many sexual and romantic exploits in 18th-century
Europe. Born in Venice in 1725 to actor parents, Casanova was expelled
from a seminary for scandalous conduct and embarked on a varied career,
including a stint working for a cardinal in Rome, as a violinist, and as
a magician, while traveling all around the continent. Fleeing from
creditors, he changed his name to Chevalier de Seingalt, under which he
published a number of literary works, most importantly his
autobiography. Casanova’s celebration of pleasure seeking and
much-professed love of women — he maintained that a woman’s conversation
was at least as captivating as her body — made him the leading champion
of a movement towards sexual freedom, and the model for the famous Don
Juan of literature. After working as a diplomat in Berlin, Russia, and
Poland and a spy for the Venetian inquisitors, Casanova spent the final
years of his life working on his autobiography in the library of a
Bohemian count. He died in 1798.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The
only child of the famous feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the
philosopher and novelist William Godwin, both influential voices in
Romantic-Era England, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin fell in love with the
poet Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was only 16; he was 21 and unhappily
married. In the summer of 1816, the couple was living with Shelley’s
friend and fellow poet, the dashing and scandalous Lord Byron, in
Byron’s villa in Switzerland when Mary came up with the idea for what
would become her masterpiece — and one of the most famous novels in
history — Frankenstein (1818). After Shelley’s wife committed suicide,
he and Mary were married, but public hostility to the match forced them
to move to Italy. When Mary was only 24, Percy Shelley was caught in a
storm while at sea and drowned, leaving her alone with a two-year-old
son (three previous children had died young). Alongside her husband,
Byron, and John Keats, Mary was one of the principal members of the
second generation of Romanticism; unlike the three poets, who all died
during the 1820s, she lived long enough to see the dawn of a new era,
the Victorian Age. Still somewhat of a social outcast for her liaison
with Shelley, she worked as a writer to support her father and son, and
maintained connections to the artistic, literary and political circles
of London until her death in 1851.
Richard Wagner
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One of history’s most revered composers, Richard Wagner set his work
on the famous Ring cycle aside in 1858 to work on his most romantic
opera, Tristan and Isolde. He was inspired to do so partially because of
his thwarted passion for Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of a wealthy
silk merchant and patron of Wagner’s. While at work on the opera, the
unhappily married Wagner met Cosima von Bulow, daughter of the
celebrated pianist and composer Franz Liszt and wife of Hans von Bulow,
one of Liszt’s disciples. They later became lovers, and their
relationship was an open secret in the music world for several years.
Wagner’s wife died in 1866, but Cosima was still married and the mother
of two children with von Bulow, who knew of the relationship and
worshiped Wagner’s music (he even conducted the premiere of Tristan and
Isolde). After having two daughters, Isolde and Eva, by Wagner, Cosima
finally left her husband; she and Wagner married and settled into an
idyllic villa in Switzerland, near Lucerne. On Cosima’s 33rd birthday,
Christmas Day 1870, Wagner brought an orchestra in to play a symphony he
had written for her, named the Triebschen Idyll after their villa.
Though the music was later renamed the Siegfried Idyll after the
couple’s son, the supremely romantic gesture was a powerful symbol of
the strength of Wagner and Cosima’s marriage, which lasted until the
composer’s death in 1883.
King Edward VIII
Edward,
then Prince of Wales, was introduced to Wallis Simpson in 1931, when
she was married to her second husband; they soon began a relationship
that would rock Britain’s most prominent institutions — Parliament, the
monarchy and the Church of England — to their cores. Edward called
Simpson, whom others criticized as a financially unstable social
climber, “the perfect woman.” Just months after being crowned king in
January 1936, after the death of his father, George V, Edward proposed
to Simpson, precipitating a huge scandal and prompting Britain’s prime
minister, Stanley Baldwin, to say he would resign if the marriage went
ahead. Not wanting to push his country into an electoral crisis, but
unwilling to give Simpson up, Edward made the decision to abdicate the
throne. In a public radio address, he told the world of his love for
Simpson, saying that “I have found it impossible to carry the heavy
burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would
wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.” Married
and given the titles of Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the couple lived in
exile in France, where they became fixtures of cafe society.
Edith Piaf
Though
her life was marked by sickness, tragedy and other hardships from
beginning to end, the famous French chanteuse with the throaty voice
became the epitome of classic Parisian-style romance for her legions of
fans. Born Edith Giovanna Gassion in 1915, she was abandoned by her
mother and reared by her grandmother; while traveling with her father, a
circus acrobat, she began singing for pennies on the street. Discovered
by a cabaret promoter who renamed her Piaf, or “sparrow,” (and was
later brutally murdered), Edith enjoyed a meteoric rise to stardom and
by 1935 was singing in the grandest concert halls in Paris. Piaf was
married twice, but her great love was the boxer Marcel Cerdan, a world
middleweight champion who was killed in a plane crash en route from
Europe to New York in 1949. It was for Cerdan that Piaf sang the
achingly romantic “Hymne a l’amour,” celebrated all over the world as
one of her best loved ballads. After a near lifelong struggle with drug
and alcohol addictions, Piaf died of liver cancer on the French Riviera
in 1963. Her grave is one of the most visited in Paris’s world famous
Pere Lachaise cemetery.
Kathleen Woodiwiss
Born
in 1939 in Alexandria, Louisiana, Kathleen Woodiwiss was a young wife
and mother when she began writing romantic fiction as a response to her
dissatisfaction with the existing “women’s fiction” of the time. In
1972, she published her first novel, The Flame and the Flower, set on a
Southern plantation in the late 18th century. Its historical setting and
theme, florid prose style and steamy sex scenes inspired a legion of
imitators, and its smashing commercial success sparked a new boom in
romance fiction. Woodiwiss was given credit for inventing the modern
romance novel in its current form: thick period melodramas packed with
an array of dashing and dangerous men and bosomy women in low-cut
dresses. She herself wrote 13 of these so-called “bodice-rippers,”
including “Shanna” (1977), “A Rose in Winter” (1982), “Come Love a
Stranger” (1984) and “The Reluctant Suitor” (2003). In an interview with
Publisher’s Weekly, Woodiwiss firmly denied the characterization of her
books as erotic, maintaining that she wrote only “love stories, — with a
little spice.” By the time of her death in 2006, Woodiwiss’s spicy love
stories had sold more than 36 million copies in 13 countries.
Elizabeth Taylor
An
actress since early childhood, the dark haired, violet-eyed Elizabeth
Taylor has won two Best Actress Oscars (for “Butterfield 8″ in 1960 and
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in 1966) but is perhaps best known for
her rare beauty — and her epic love life. She has been married a total
of eight times — twice to the same man, the actor Richard Burton, whom
she has called “one of the two great loves of my life.” The first was
the film producer Mike Todd, who died in a plane crash in 1958. Taylor
and Burton met on the set of “Cleopatra,” when both were married to
other people; their affair soon made headlines around the world and
earned a public rebuke from no lesser authority than the Vatican. Their
own married life together was a study in extremes, soaked in alcohol and
characterized by a passion that was no less intense when they were
fighting than when they were getting along. After divorcing in 1973,
they found it impossible to stay apart and remarried in 1975, only to
break up four months later. Barred from Burton’s funeral in 1984 by his
last wife, Taylor still received legions of condolences, honoring her
and Burton’s place in the pantheon of history’s most celebrated love
stories.
Krishna Pushkaram, celebrated once in 12 years, is a major festival in
Andhra Pradesh. People of all walks of life, irrespective of caste,
color, creed and religion participate in these functions which last for
12 days. Krishna Pushkaram takes place during the transit of Bruhaspati
(Jupiter) into Kanya Rasi (Virgo Zodiac Sign). Vijayawada is the main
center of the festival. A large number of devotees gather here to have a
dip in the Krishna River which is considered sacred by the Hindus.
Various pujas and rituals are performed. The festival was held in August
2004 and drew over 30 million pilgrims and tourists during the 12-day
festival in 2004. The next Krishna Pushkaram will be held in 2016 on
August 12th to 23rd in Vijayawada.
Krishna Pushkaram 2016 Ghats: Very informative information for all those pilgrims who visit Vijayawada for Krishna Pushkaram from on August 12th to 23rd,
2016.
Here we are providing you list of all ghats and their names. We
also guide you which ghat is near to which place, so that you can reach
the nearest ghat from your location.
VIJAYAWADA:
Durga Malleswara Devasthanam, custodian of Goddess Kanaka Durga temple,
is gearing up for Krishna Pushkarams in 2016. Various issues pertaining
to Durga Ghat development, queue lines, prasadam distribution and
Annadanam were discussed in a preparatory meeting held here
Krishna Pushkaram, celebrated once in 12 years, is a major festival in
Andhra Pradesh. People of all walks of life, irrespective of caste,
color, creed and religion participate in these functions which last for
12 days. Krishna Pushkaram takes place during the transit of Bruhaspati
(Jupiter) into Kanya Rasi (Virgo Zodiac Sign).
Vijayawada is the main center of the festival. A large number of
devotees gather here to have a dip in the Krishna River which is
considered sacred by the Hindus. Various pujas and rituals are
performed. The festival was held in August 2004 and drew over 30 million
pilgrims and tourists during the 12-day festival in 2004. The next
Krishna Pushkaram will be held in 2016.
In Mahaboobnagar the places for Krishna Pushkaram Places are:
Beechupalli, Rangapur, Alampur, Nadi Agraharam, Chintarevula, Nandimalla
(Narayanpet), Krishna, Pasupula and Panchadev Padu (Maktal), Chellepad
(Weepanagandla), Jataprole (Weepanagandla), Somasila (Kollapur),
Malleswaram, Manchalakatta and Lingala.
In Nalgonda Krishna Pushkaram Places Wadapally in Damaracharla mandal,
Mattapally in Mattampally mandal and Nagarjunasagar in Peddavura mandal,
apart from 5 places of Mellacheruvu mandal, Utlapally in Peddavura
mandal, Adavidevulapally in Damaracharla, Mahankaligudem in Nereducharla
are locations for Pushkaram
Krishna Pushkaram in Telangana , krishna Pushkaralu 2016 in "Telangana ":-
Telangana Krishna Pushkaram
Welcome to Telangana Krishna Pushkaram 2016
which is being organized on a large scale for the first time in the
newly formed state of Telangana. The Maha Pushkaralu starting from August 12th 2016,
also called as 'Maha Kumbhamela' comes once in every 144 years. The
Maha Pushkaralu is for a period of 12 days and ends on August 123rd,
2016. Several ghats have been developed in Telangana region on
the banks of Godavari River for the devotees to take a holy dip and
perform rituals for ancestors Immerse in the holy waters of river Krishna In Mahaboobnagar the places for Krishna Pushkaram are:
Beechupalli,
Rangapur,
Alampur,
Nadi Agraharam,
Chintarevula,
Nandimalla
(Narayanpet),
Krishna,
Pasupula and Panchadev Padu (Maktal), Chellepad
(Weepanagandla),
Wadapally in Damaracharla mandal, Mattapally in Mattampally
mandal and Nagarjunasagar in Peddavura mandal,
apart from 5 places of
Mellacheruvu mandal,
Utlapally in Peddavura mandal, Adavidevulapally in
Damaracharla, Mahankaligudem in Nereducharla are locations for Pushkaram
Krishna Pushkaralu Pooja
AP & Telangana Governments make arrangement for pilgrims who are not
able to attend the puja karyakramas, They will send you the Prasad /
Krishna Water to your mentioned address. In Krishna Pushkaralu you can
perform various poojas those are Mahasankalpam, Laghusankalpam,
Sariganga Snanam, Prayaschittam, Gouri Pooja, Ganga Pooja, Musivayanam,
Vidhistanam & Pindapradanam. Here you can get KrishnaPushkaram Pooja List.
In Presence:
Mahasankalpam:-
Mahasankalpam means appeasing and praying pitru devatas by chanting
their names and gotras for removing our birth bad karmas and sins.
Laghusankalpam:-
Laghusankalpam means taking a dip in holy river by uttering our names
and gotras to get favours from deities in present birth life.
Sariganga Snanam:-
Sariganga Snanam means taking bath in holy river during pushkara period
for better family life, seeking good children and better relations
between wife and husband.
Prayaschittam:-
Prayaschittam means a type of confession according to Hindu mythology.
It is observed by women to get rid of their sin or known or unknown
mistakes if they mate with men during menusration perid.
Gouri Pooja:-
Gouri Pooja is conducted by Hindu devotees at holy riverside to please goddess gauri which is also known as kumkumarchana.
Ganga Pooja:-
During sacred pushkara period, all rivers waters mix with krishna water,
so ganga pooja is conducted to appease all deities at once.
Musivayanam:-
Musivayanam is an important and compulsory religious dharma in Hindu
community in which a sumangali is respected and gifts are offered when a
woman dies and her husband is alive. It is for attaining salvation for
that woman.
Pindapradanam:-
Pindapradanam is the most important program during pushkara period. It
is observed by Hindus to offer pindas to their nearest 34 relatives and
family members who are dead. They believe that such ritual provides
salvation after their death and they can reach to good lokas and get
ultimate moksha.
In Absence:
Gouri Pooja:-
Gouri Pooja is conducted by Hindu devotees at holy riverside to please goddess gauri which is also known as kumkumarchana.
Ganga Pooja :-
During sacred pushkara period, all rivers waters mix with krishna water,
so ganga pooja is conducted to appease all deities at once.
Musivayanam :-
Musivayanam is an important and compulsory religious dharma in Hindu
community in which a sumangali is respected and gifts are offered when a
woman dies and her husband is alive. It is for attaining salvation for
that woman.
Pindapradanam:-
Pindapradanam is the most important program during pushkara period. It
is observed by Hindus to offer pindas to their nearest 34 relatives and
family members who are dead. They believe that such ritual provides
salvation after their death and they can reach to good lokas and get
ultimate moksha.
Mopidevi Subrahmanyeswara Swamy Temple is located in the village
of Mopidevi, Krishna District in Andhra Pradesh. Here Sri Subramanya
Swamy is in the form of Lingam (Shiva Lingam).
History:
According to a legend or Sthala Purana, the Lingam is a self manifested
(Swayambhu) one. Veeravarapu Parvathalu, who was a potter, was a great
devotee. Pleased with his devotion the Lord once came in his dream and
asked him to dig up the anthill to find his Lingam in the village of
Mopidevi. Parvathalu told about his dream to the villagers and dug up
the anthill at the place indicated in his dream. Surprisingly, they
found the Lingam which was placed on the anthill and they began to
worship. He prepared the idols of Horse, Nandi, Cock and Garuda which
are very dear to Lord Subramanya Swamy with clay.. He prepared the idols
and baked them in the Bhatti ( furnace) in such a fashion that they
never lost their original forms.
How to Reach:
Mopidevi is well connected with Road route.
By Air: Nearest airport is Gannavaram, Andhra Pradesh. From Gannavaram one can choose to travel by Bus or by hiring a private taxi.
By Train: Nearest railway station is Repalle railway station.
By Road: Mopidevi is in the Vijayawada-Avanigadda roadline.
There are number of buses from Vijayawada to Avanigadda. It takes around
two hours from Vijayawada in bus via kankipadu, vuyyuru,pamarru and
challapalli. Vijayawada-Nagayalanka buses also go through Mopidevi.
Alternatively, share autos are available from Repalle railway station
directly to Mopidevi temple. It takes hardly 20–30 minutes (since the
penumudi bridge is opened in 2006). This is the best option for those
who prefer Train (Guntur/Tenali to Repalle) over bus.
Accommodation: Moderate accommodation facilities are available in Repalle, better facilities are available in Vijayawada & Machilipatnam.
Darshan Timings: 04.00 AM to 12.30 PM and 02.00 PM to 08.30 PM.
Pooja: Sarpa dosha Nivarana, Rahu Ketu dosha pooja, and Anapathya
dosha for the relief of Vision, Ear related problems, for cure of skin
related diseases, Famous temple for Children’s, for good life partner
and Annaprasana. Devotes strongly belief that if couple sleep in
Mopidevi Temple for a night they will be blessed with children.
Contact Devasthanam:
The Executive Officer
Sri Subrahmanyeswara Swamy Devasthanam,
Mopidevi Village, Mopidevi - Mandal.
Krishna District. Pin - 521125,
Andhra Pradesh,
India.
Devasthanam Phone number:(91) 08671 257240
Executive Officer (Office):(91) 08671 257240
Sri Prudhweswara Swamy Temple, Nadakuduru village, Challapalli Mandal
Sri Prudhweswara Swamy Temple is located at Nadakuduru, Challapalli Mandal in Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh. This Temple is dedicated to Prudeswara Swamy.
History of Temple:
In olden days a demon narakasura killed a brahmin dvimukha and as a
remedy of killing him narakasura worshipped lord shiva as prudhveeswara
here. And this temple will be in west facing. at that times it was
called as narakothara kshethram and now it became nadakuduru.
And from Puranas (religious texts), it was said that lord krishna came
here along with his wife and worshipped lord vishnu here and the idols
of lord vishnu were kept at the temple in karthika vanam.
The history of Nadakuduru dates back to Dwapara Yuga. Lord Sri Krishna
and Satyabhama are said to have performed puja to Lord Laksmi Narayana
after having killed Naraka Sura in Nadakuduru. The deity of Lord Siva is
called Podiswara and the village per se is known to possess the Amla
Tree and Patanjali trees. The latter is said to have turned extinct in
Benares and other places, yet grows magically around this place.
How to Reach:
By Road: Kodali, Machilipatnam, Challapalli, Mopidevi are the
Nearest Towns to Nadakuduru. Machilipatnam is 40 km from Nadakuduru.
Road connectivity is there from Machilipatnam to Nadakuduru.APSRTC runs
Number of busses from major cities to here.
By Rail: There is no railway station near to Nadakuduru in less
than 10 km. How ever there are railway Stations from Near By town
Machilipatnam. are the railway Stations near to Machilipatnam. You can
reach from Machilipatnam to Nadakuduru by road after. How everGuntur Jn
Rail Way Station is major railway station 56 KM near to Nadakuduru.
By Air: Nearest airport is Gannavaram, Andhra Pradesh. From Gannavaram one can choose to travel by Bus or by hiring a private taxi.
Accommodation: Moderate accommodation facilities are available in Repalle, better facilities are available in Vijayawada & Machilipatnam.
Significance:
Devotees visit this temple to seek fulfilment of the following:
Salvation, Wealth, Relief from diseases, Purchase of vehicles, Gain
Knowledge.
