The inner or second enclosure has to be reached through an only entrance, guarded by the second gopura. The base of this gopura seems to have existed by the beginning of the 13th century. This enclosure is known as the Vimana-pradak- shinam.
This story is found in the Bhavishyottara purana and runs follows:- Once Lakshmi converted Brahma into a cow and Siva into a calf and sold hem to the Chola king. The cow which used to wander
This story is found in the Bhavishyottara-purana and runs as follows ;- once Srinivasa put on a fine dress and started for hunt. He. chased an elephant and wandered a long distance and ultimately entered a garden. A beautiful young maiden and her companions, who were plucking Bowers, ran away on…
Very soon after the marriage Akasaraja died and his brother, I Tondaman, and son Vasudeva, fought for the throne. Srinivasa interfered at the instance of Padmavati and divided the kingdom between the two disputants. Tondaman got the Tondamandalam ‘ part and Vasudeva obtained the Narayanavanam part of the kingdom. This…
Passing through the entrance of this gopura, one enters the outer courtyard of the temple. Immediately adjacent to and touching the gopura is a small mantapa with two wings, one on each side, and a path-way in the centre. Each wing has two rows of four pillars each. The pillars…
The celebrated temple of Sri Venkatesvara stands on a hill named Venkatadri which looks like a depression surrounded by high hills on all sides. The entire temple is surrounded by a prakara built of large blocks of stone riveted into each other. The walls are 414 feet East-West and 263…
