Kotappakonda - Sri Trikoteswara Swami
Temple
కోటప్పకొండ - శ్రీ త్రికోటేశ్వర
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Kotappakonda is a holy hill, situated in
Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located 10 miles from
Narasaraopet city and 30 miles south west of Guntur City.
History
Celebrated with great devotion and
fervor every year with a large number of devotees thronging the place,
Kotappakonda has an interesting history and some incredible facts associated
with it.
1. Trikuta Hills: Kotappa Konda
hill appears with 3 peaks in any direction so it's also called as Trikutadri,
Trikuta Parvatham. The three hills are Brahma hill, Vishnu hill and Rudra hill.
These 3 hills can be distinctly seen from a distance from any direction.
2. Brahma Shikharam: The main temple
Trikoteswara Swamy Temple is located here.
3. Rudra Shikharam: Old Kotayya
temple is located here. This is the first place where Trikoteswara Swamy
existed, seeing the great devotion of Devotee Gollabhama, Trikoteswara Swamy
came to Brahma Shikharam. Hence it is called Paatha (old) Kotayya Temple.
4. Vishnu Shikharam: Lord
Paapanaseswara Temple is here. It is believed that Lord Vishnu did penance for
Lord Shiva. There is also a holy pond "Paapanasa Teertha" here.
Sundudu, a cattleman, with his wife
Kundiri used to live towards the south of the Trikuta hills. They became rich
soon after the birth of their first child, a beautiful daughter,
Anandavalli(Gollabhama). Slowly she became a great devotee of Lord Shiva and
started spending most of her time offering prayers to Lord Shiva at the Old
Koteswara Temple located on Rudra hill. Eventually, she lost all interest in
her materialistic life and started penance for Sri Koteswara Swamy.
She used to visit Rudra hill every day,
even during the scorching summer, to offer prayers to the Lord. Pleased with
her penance, Jangama Devara appeared before her. Sympathized by her penance,
Jangama Devara blessed her to be a pregnant, though she was a spinster.
Unmindful of her pregnancy she carried her daily prayers as usual. Stupefied at
her deep devotion, he again appeared and told her that she need not take so
many troubles to perform pujas and offer prayers, and promised her that he
himself would come to her house where she could do her penance and commanded
her to proceed towards her home, and that he would follow her, but advised her
not to look back even once on her way to home, in spite of whatever happens.
From Rudra hill, Anandavalli proceeded
towards her home and after reaching Brahma hill, she lost her patience and
turned back. The moment she turned back, breaking the promise she made, Lord
Jangama Devara immediately stopped where he was, at Brahma hills and entered
into a cave on that hill and turned himself into a Lingam. This sacred placed
is famous by the name New Koteswara Temple. She then realized that her
pregnancy was the creation of him, to test her devotion towards him. She felt
happy as she got through all the critical trails and became one in the God.
Every Year great festival is held in
this Temple, which is known as Thirunallu Festival The festival takes place on
the day of Mahashivaratri. Lakhs of people take part in this festival peoples
are came from all over the Telug states. In the festival night Cultural
activities also held on the prabha's (prabha is like a triangle shape arrangement
constructed by long tree sticks) prabha's came from several villages near
kotappakoda.Prabha's are the main attraction of the festival.
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