Abbur

How to Reach: Sri Brahmanya theertharu His Aradhana in Vaishakha Masa=

BrahmanyaPura Pranadevaru Temple-- Kambada Narasimha
devaru - in Brahmanya pura- Kengal Hanumantha Temple-
Puroshottama Guha- MaLur Aprameya Swamy Temple

Agumbe

Mula Brindava of Brahmanya Thirtha

Yogapattika Sri Lakshminarasimha

Abbur is holy place situated on the banks of river Kanwa. It also has the Mula-Brindavan of Sri
Brahmanya and other Saints of Vaishnava seers. The Place is located amid coconut groves and
green fields.

Sri Brahmanya Thirtha went on a pilgrimage visiting holy shrines in north and south. On the
way back to Abbur he entered a cave and did penance for a long time. During his Life time he
did many miracles. He installed Sri Vysaraja in his place as the head of mutt. And entered
Brindavana on Vishaka Bahula Dwadashi. Some of the idols worshipped in the mutt are
Lakshminarsimha, Venugopala, Bhoo-Vvaraha, Ramachandra, Sita, Lakshmana, Madhwacharya-
Karachita, Yogapattika Sri Lakshminarasimha, Lakshmidevi and Satyabhama Devi.

The mutt is existing even today as Kundapura Mutt. The Varadaraja temple is near the Mutt. It is
believed that Vyasatirtha, is the disciple of Brahmanya Thirtha, spent his student days at Abbur
near Channapatna. This Matha is built in Vijayanagara style. The stone pillars are sculpted with
relief structures. Lord Srinivasa statue was installed in the Garbagriha by Vyasathirtha. There are
two entrances to the hall, one from north and another from east. This entrance leads to a hall
where we can see the Purandara Mantap. It is believed that Purandara Dasa visited during
Vysathirthas time and sang many bhajans and keerthanas in front of the Lord. Purandara
Aradhane, festival dedicated to the Saint Purandara Dasa is organized here every year. This
place beholds rich heritage and historical monuments that are still to be explored and analyze.
Further to, the heritage has been ruined by the invasion of Muslim reign during Nawab Hyder
Ali.

How to Reach:

By Road: From Bangalore 60 Kms, from Mysore 80 Kms. Direct buses ply from Bangalore and
Mysore via Channapatna.

By Rail: Channapatna Railway Station.

Accommodations: Sri Vyasaraya Mutt and Ragavendra Mutt are convenient for pilgrims to
stay

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Abbur - Sri Brahmanya theertharu

ABBUR- The Brindhavana of Sri Brhmanya Theertharu across the KANVA RIVER and
surrounded by green fields there emerges a calm serine village ABBUR, the divine resting
place of Sri Brhmanya Theertharu.

Sri Vyasarayaru was Brahmanya teerthas disciple. In Madhwa lineage, there are 3 major
mutts direct following of madhwacharyas peetha. After the first 5 prominent swamijis,
there are around 25-30 and then comes Sri Rajendra teertharu, whose guru was Sri
Vidyadhiraja. He gave deeksha to two people, so the lineage was broken up.
Purvadhimutt is the first split given to Rajendra teertharu. Uttaradimutt started from the
second person. In the purvadhimutt, vyasarayaru was the prominent saint. His works are

Chandrika Treatise on Nyayasudha.

Nyamaruta and

Tarkatandava

Purvadhimutt started being called as Vyasarayara mutt. After Sri Vyasarayaru, 5-6
swamijis came, and there was a split. Sri Brahamanyateertharu had his own lineage and
Brahmanyateertha mutt was called as Abbur mutt which is also being called as Kundapur
Vyasaraya mutta and the other one is the Sosale Vyasaraya mutt. Sri Sripadarajaru was
the vidya guru of Sri Vyasa rayaru. But Sri Vyasarayas deekshe was given by Sri
Brahmanya teertharu.

Brahmanya Tirtha's only accredited literary work was a 'gloss' on the

Tatparya of Jaya Tirtha. However, even this is challenged as not
entirely well founded, mostly because his disciple Vyasa Tirtha made no reference to it
anywhere!

From the sloka it is understood that he was Sooryamsha.

(Page 57 Karnataka Bhaktha Vijaya by Belur Keshavadas 1974Edn) .Took ashram from Sri
Purushoththama Thirtha. On account of his blessings, Vahnipura (Bannur) Ramacharya got
a son named as Yathiraja who later became the famous Sri Vyasaraya. Undertook Badari
yatre and had Darshan of Nara NarayaNa- Offered prayer to get a good disciple. While
returning at Sathenahalli in Dharwar district performed Pranadevara Prathishte. The
Yuvaraja of Channapatna had lost his legs on account of the mischief of the Junior
Maharani. He took shelter at the feet of Sri Brahmanyathirtha. He used to apply his pada
Mruththika daily and in course of time got his legs back. He came to power and requested
the saint to accept something as a token of gratitude. The saint did not want anything
except the idol of Sri Vital kept in the Treasury. Even now this Idol is being pronounced as
"BrhamaNya KaraaRchitha Sri Vitala Devaru" (J H B Acharya, 1977, "Haridasaru" )
 KamsadhvamsipadAmBOja samsaktO hamsapumgava:
BraHmaNyagururAjAKyO vartatam mama mAnasE (tAtparyachamdrikA).

Note : Gents in shalye-panche and ladies in Saree are allowed to do pradakshina and to
have teertha-prasada. Other attire are NOT allowed.

Check out these while you are there:

Puroshottama Guha : Just 3 Km from Abbur the road is too narrow and bumpy, full of
ditches and mud. But the nature outside was too good. You can walk to this place from
the Abbur Matha. It is believed that Sri Purushottama teertharu used to go to this guha
daily to do Japatapaanusthana and from there and carry the water to offer pooja to
Kambhada Narashima devara devasthaana in a near by village. Later Sri Purushottama
teertharu went into this guha to do his penance and he never came back. It is believed
that he still resides there. People used to still go deep into the cave, but then the
hanumantha idol was installed there to prevent them from going deeper into it.
Hot to go : Abbur is around 70 kms from Bangalore on the mysore highway. If you take a
bus going to Mysore from Bangalore, get down at Chanapatna and from there take an auto
to Abbur. It is around 6Km from Chanapatna on the way to Kanva rese rvoir. Also there
might be some local transportation from Chanapatna to Abbur, please check wth the
locals.

Important dates : Vaishakha Shudda Dwadashi, Brahmanya teerthara aradhane.

Contact Details : Gopalachar, Abbur : 08113 7265243

|| Sri Moola Gopalkrishno Vijayate ||

| arthikalpita kalpoyam prathyarthi gajakesari | vyasathirtha gurubhoryarth asmad

ishtartha siddhaye ||

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SRI BRAHMANYA TIRTHA

Shri Shri 1008 Shri Brahmanya Gurugalu

|| Shri Shri BrahmaNya thiirthO Vijayathe ||
|| Shri pAnduranga Vittalaya NamaH ||

Shrihi

Shri Lakshmi Hayagreeva abhinna

Shri Lakshmi Narasimhaya namaha

Shri Hanuma Bheema Madhva Gurubhyo namaha
Shri bhAvi Sameera vAdiraja Gurubhyo namaha

Shri Maha Ganapathiye namaha

Shri Brahmanya Thiirtha Gurubhyo namaha

Shri vyAsa Thiirtha Gurubhyo namaha

Shri Purandara dAsarAya Gurubhyo nahama

Shri Harihi Om

|| narasimhO Akhila ajnAna matha dhwAnta divAkaraha

jayathi amitha sajnAna sukha shakthi payOnidhihi ||
 || AchAryO pavanOsmAkum AchAryAnEcha bhArathi
dEvo NarAyanaha Shrishaha dEvi mangala devatha ||

|| kamsa dhwamsi padaambhOja samsakthO Hamsa PungavaH

Brahmanya Guru RajaakhyO varthathAm mama maanase ||

Shree Shree Shree VyasarAja GurusArvabhouma Virachitha

Shri Shri Brahmanya Theertha gururAja pancha rathna mAlika stothram

|| ShriH ||

vandE brahmanya theertha nilayam shubha tama charitham sEvitha Shree

samEtham
shAmtam dAntam mahAmtam guru guNa bharitam yOgi sanGairu pEtham
kAma krOdhA dya tEtam kumathi bHirajitham kalmashAm bHedhi pOtham
dHEram bhUdEva gEtam Shubha jana mahitam dhanya mAnam vinEtham || 1 ||

mAdyan mAyE gajendra pancha vadanaH prakyAtha keerthir mahAn

Shrimadh Vittala pAda padma madhupaH sarvEshTa chinTAmaniH
nirvyA jOru dayA kaTaksha lasithO jnAnAdi bhAgyOjwalaH
Shri Brahmanya masTaka maNiH pAyoUda pAyUtsa mAm || 2||

bHibrah kAshAya chElam vilasi tulasE pankajAkshAdhi mAlam

dhootha ajnAna aghajAlam mrudu vachana kalam chAru soundarya sheelam
aArtha trAnaika lOlam pranatha muni kulam vaishnava agrya anukUlam
BrahmanNyaryam dayAlam sthitha mukha kamalam sAdaram tham bhajElam || 3
||

yadhvrindavana darshanEna nitharAM pApAni yAnthi kshayaM |

yadhvrindAvana mritthikA suvidhrithA thApathraya dhwMsinI ||
yadhvrindAvana sEvayA bhuvijanaH prApnOthi vidyaM sukhaM |
sarva anishTa nivrutthayEsthu sa cha mE brahmaNya thIrthO guruH ||4 ||

kushta shwEthOrugulma kshaya kaTiNa thara vyAdhivaidyAdhinAthO |

bhUthaprEtha grahOcchATana kushala mahAmanthra mUrthir munIndraH ||
sarvAbhIshTa pradAthA sarasasuhrudayaH puNyachArithra nAmA |
bhUyAdh brahmaNyathIrthO gurukulathilakO bhUyasE shrEyasE mE ||5 ||

Shree Shree Shree VyasarAja GurusArvabhouma Virachitha

Shri Shri Brahmanya Theertha gururAja pancha rathna mAlika stothram sampoorNam

Beautiful pictures of Srimadh Brahmanya Thiirtharu:

http://picasaweb.google.com/bala.krishna.18/ShriShri1008ShriBrahmanyaGurugalu
 Shri Narasimha Vittalara Kruthi ...

ninna nambideno Brahmanya thiirthArya

sannutha mahima pAvana sucharya || pa ||

ghanna bhavada bhaya vannu kaledu

yathi ranna yennanu dhanyana mAdu || anu pa ||

PurushOthamma thiirthara priya sukumAra

durithougha jeemUtha chanda sameera

surachira tulasi pankaja mani hAra

dharisi merevO diwakarana avatAra

karunadi tava Shrikarana charanAmbhuja

darushana vanu kodu guna gana nidhiyE || 1 ||

sEvaka janarige dEva taru venipa

Shri Vittalana pAda tAvare madhupa

kOvida janaru sambhAvisi sthuthipa

pAvanna pAdArchitha bhAvaja munipa

pAvana sumathana jeevara chandrane

pAvana mathi kodu nee volidu yemage || 2 ||

Hari bhakthi vairAgya para tatva jnAna

varava pAlisu sarva vidyA praveena

Narasimha Vittala Shri Hari sannidhAna

karuna pAtrane divya vara poorna jnAna

Hari guru bhajana tvath pada vyAsAryara

Guru vendeniside dhare yolu merede || 3 ||

Shri vyAsarAja gurugala antaryAmi

Shri Brahmanya gurugala antaryAmi

 Shri bhArathi PavamAna antargatha

Shri Vittala abhinna Shri Nrusimha abhinna Shri KrishnArpaNamasthu

Sri Brahmanya Theertha Moola Brundavana, Abbur, Channapatna

In these days where one sees the effects of Kali age predominant even in sacred precincts
and selfishness and smallness of mind seem to rule the times, it may be difficult to think
of a time when giants like Sri Brahmanya Tirtha ruled the kingdom of God. This great
personality believed to be an incarnation of Surya shone with brilliance in the fifteenth
century and left posterity with the invaluable gift of Sri Vyasaraja - philosopher,
administrator, sage and scholar - who has been unequaled in the Vedanta realms. Sri
Brahmanya Tirtha's Punyadina falls on Vaishakha Bahula Yekadashi. He entered his final
abode Vrindavana in 1461 AD in Abbur, near Channapattana on the Bangalore - Mysore
highway.

Not much has bee recorded of his life history. Some facts are available from his "Vijaya"
composed by Sri Srinivasa Tirtha , who is a descendant of the order. His father was
Ramacharya with the nickname of Poogavana (areca farm). Possibly he owned one. Sri
Brahmanya was born in Nrihari kshethra on the banks of the Cauvery and was named
Narasimha. The boy was sent to Sri Purushotthama Tirtha at the young age of 7 after his
Upanayana samskara. Sri Purushotthama was next in line to Sri Jayadhwaja whose name is
preserved for posterity for his founding of the Dvaita school in the north, specially in
Navadvipa (modern Bengal). ISKON followers call his name as Jayadharma.
Narasimha was a precocious pupil with great intelligence, devotion to God and disinterest
in the affairs of the world. Sri Purushotthama had already received some indications in
dreams about his pupil. The education of Narasimha was completed in a short while and
he was also given the oaths of Asceticism and called Brahmanya Tirtha by his Guru. Very
soon the latter entered a cave near Abbur and disappeared from human view. A miracle
attributed to Sri Brahmanya tirtha was that when he sprinkled some consecrated water on
cold cooked food after Puja, it became fresh and hot.

There was a rich and pious Brahmin who had started on a pilgrimage to Banaras. His
location is not clearly specified, but it is said that he also lived on the shore of Cauvery
river (Called Marudvrudha in the Rgveda). Unfortunately, he died suddenly after getting
fever. His wife who wanted to commit Sathi along with her husband (they were childless
at the time) came to beg permission of Sri Brahmanya Tirtha, the worshipper of Nrusimha
deity given to him by his Guru. Sri Brahmanya blessed the widow - "Dheergha sumangalee
bhava" - Be happy as a wife in wedded bliss for a long time. When she told him that she
was no longer having a husband, Sri Brahmanya Tirtha told her - do not worry. Your
husband is not dead, but is still alive. He gave her holy water with incantations, which
when applied to the dead body of the husband brought him back to life, as if nothing had
happened. As per the Swamiji's desire, the first born of this couple was given even as a
young baby, to him. This baby was received on a golden plate and fed with the milk used
for Abhisheka of the Lord. The baby who grew up into the great Vyasaraja, was given his
Upanayana Samskara at the age of 5 and took the oath of asceticism at the age of 7.
Though Sri Brahmanya himself was greatly learned as described by his own disciple and
successor Sri Vyasaraja, he was sent for his studies to Sri Sripadaraja at Mulbagal. He
became famous for his erudition, scholarship, great qualities of complete disinterest in
personal factors and became the fountain head of learning for Tatvavada in his time.

In the mean while Sri Brahmanya Tirtha received the idol of Vittala as a result of a dream
indication, from where it was buried in the ground. He went to Karnataka capital
(possibly Srirangapattana) and on being requested by the king and people of the state,
which was suffering from drought, brought back copious rains. The grateful kingdom gave
the ascetic a village called Brahmanyapuri. After handing over his reign to the worthy
successor, he entered in to Samadhi in Abbur.

When the Abbur Matha was being renovated and improved for the facility of devotees in
the last few years, it appears that there was an idea to cover his Vrindavana also along
with the rest of the area. However, Sri Brahmanya Tirtha directed the reigning pontiff to
leave it uncovered as at present - possibly because he is believed to be the incarnation of
the Sun. Even in the prayer shloka given below seems to hint at this fact. Even today, a
large number of devotees visit his Vrindavana and attain their desires by prayers and Seva
at his feet.

His great disciple Sri Vyasaraja has composed the following shlokas about his Guru.

"Kamsadhvamsipadaambhoja samsaktho hamsapungavah Brahmnyagururajaakhyo

varthathaam mama maanase"

"Samuthsaarya thamasthomam sanmargam samprakashya cha sadaa vishnupadaasaktham

seve Brahmanya Bhaaskaram"

The simple meanings of these two shlokas are as follows :

May Sri Brahmanya tirtha the great ascetic who is always immersed in the lotus feet of
the destroyer of the evil Kamsa (Krishna) always remain in my mind.

Worship and serve the great Brahmanya tirtha who is like the Sun which destroys darkness
(of the mind) and shows the way (to Moksha) and who is always interested in the Lotus
feet of Vishnu. (in the case of the Sun analogy, Vishnu pada means the sky.).

MaLur Aprameya Swamy Temple

Sri Purandara Dasaru and Sri Vyasarayaru stayed in this temple for one of their
chaaturmaasyas. In this period Sri Vyasaraya finished one of his esteemed trio of works
(the Vyasa-Traya,), the Tatva Chandrika. Also Sri Purandara Dasaru wrote the song
AaDisidaLyaSOdE jagadoddhaarana in this place. One of the Maharajas of Mysore was
so impressed by the idol of AmbegAl Krishna that he took it away and kept it in his
palace. However he found that he had no peace of mind and was very restless, and he
promptly brought it back to the temple after two days. As the idol was liable to be taken
away by other kings, it was decided to fix it to the stone base since then. There is a
Lakshmi temple right beside that temple. Aprameya (Paapada lepavilladavanu) is the
presiding deity. The word Aprameya means One who has no vices what so ever.
Aprameyas consort is called Arvindalaye.

Childless couples come here to pray to AmbegAlu Krishna and come back to offer cradles
after the child is born.

Check out these while you are there:

Vyasaraja maTha at Chanapatana : There is a Vyasaraja matha at Chanapatana town in
the Bhramanara beedhi. This is very old and beautyful matha. This belongs to Kundapur
Vyasaraja Mutt, There is a Srinivasa Devaru, consecreted by Sri Vyasrajary himself, The
story is that after his service to Tirumala Venkatesha, for 12 yrs, he came back here and
could not live without the thoughts of Srinivasa, hence he installed it here.

He also wanted to thank Sri Purandara Dasaru for all his contributions to Samaja and
Madhwa siddhanta, he knew Dasaru would not take any kind of gift or reward, so he made
a Mantap, in the name of Sri Purandara Dasaru and gave orders for this daily pooje there
along with Srinivasa. The Puranadara Mantap is adjacent to temple, with the entrance
from within the temple.
Hot to go : MaLur is around 62KM from Bangalore on the Bangalore Mysore highway. You
can get down at Chanapatana and then take an auto or a village bus which stops at
mallur. It is just about 2 Kms from Chanapatna.

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BrahmanyaPura Pranadevaru Temple

It is about 5 km from the Chanapatana main road. Its a very small village. A big banyan
tree, and just next to it is the old Pranadevaru temple. Sri Bhramanaya Teertharu, Sri
Vyasarayaru mathe Sri Sripadarajaru moovaru seri prathistapisida moorthy idu. The idol
of Pranadevaru represents the three avatara of Hunumantha namely Hanuma, Bhima and
Madhwa. The Shika of the pranadevaru represents the Madhwa avatara. The
Saugandhika pushpa in hand represents the Bhimavathara. Its a very beautiful murthi.
Sri Purushottama teertharu used to go to the guhe and do his morning rituals there.
From there he used to go to Kamba narasimha, to do pooje in Kamba Narasimha, he had
to take water from purushottama guha. The lineage continued and Brahmanyateertharu
also followed the same ritual. But one day, Sri Brahmanayteertharu felt that it was a
long distance from Guhe to kamba narasimha temple. The water would become mailige
by the crowd on the long distance. So he found a new village from where he could get
easy access to water and thus the village came to be known as BrahmanyaPura. While
clearning the place, he found a beautiful idol of hanuman, and he called his disciple Sri
Vyasaraya teertharu and his close friend Sri Sripada teertharu (cousin of brahmanaya
teertha) so all three of them jointly installed that idol in the temple.

Hot to go : BrahmanyaPura is around 66KM from Bangalore on the Bangalore Mysore

highway, as soon as you get Chanapatna (there is a lake to the left) you have to take a
right turn and go 6kms in the same road. You can get down at Chanapatana and then take
an auto or a village bus which stops at mallur. It is just about 6 Kms from Chanapatna.

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Kengal Hanumantha Temple

There is a Shri Vyasarayara Prathiste Pranadevaru at Kengal. This Praana devaru was the
third among the 108 Praana devaru instated by Shri Vyasarayaru. The idol is made out of
red stone and hence the name kengal (Kempu kallu) hanumantha which literally means
red stone in Kannada. The idol was initially facing south, at the time of prathishthapane,
and only one cheek and one eye were visible to the devotees. It was not possible to put
nAma. The face has gradually turned facing east during the course of time. Thus it is now
possible to see frontal view of the face also to put a nAma. Also There is a small red rock
at the adjacent to the temple where SubramaNya (snake form) is said to be forming.
Hot to go : Kengal is around 50KM from Bangalore on the Bangalore Mysore highway

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Devarayanadurga Yoganarasimha and Bhoganarasimha

Devarayanadurga is located about 65 kilometers from Bangalore on Tumkur road.

Devarayanadurga is a hill station located at a height of 3940 feet above sea level. This is
a very sacred place for all our madhwa bandus. Many of the great saints and haridasaru
have visited this place and have offered seva to the lord Narasimha. On the base of the
hill is the Bhoganarasimha temple and on the top of the hill is the Yoganarasimha
temple. The Yoganarasimha temple on the top of the hill is installed by lord Brahma and
the Bhoganarasimha is installed by Durvasa rushigalu. It has a number of springs namely
Dhanus-tirtha, Ane-done, Rama-tirtha, Mangali and Jaya-tirtha.

The rocky hill town of Devarayanadurga is also renowned for the beautiful natural spring,
Namada Chilume. The holy spring of Devarayanadurga is considered to be very sacred
which gives birth to the Jayamangali river.
Even today there is a haridasa parampare living in Devarayanadurga. The phone number
Dasa Koota is 0816 2265450. One can plan to have teertha prasada at this place. Please
inform them in advance.

Check out these while you are there:

Sripada teertha (On top of the hill)
MukhyaPranadevara gudi (On top of the hill)
Dasa kuta
Namada Chilume
Kyamenahalli Prana Deveru

Important Dates :
1. Sri Bhoga Narasimhaswamy rathothsava held during Phalguna Masa shudha poornima
day
2. Narasimha jayanthi, Chaitra Shudha chathurdashi
3. Rathasapthami

On all the three days, there would be huge number of madhwas gather and celebrate the
uthsava of lord. There would be bhajan, Sangeetha, parayana and many such events
happening during all the three days. During Rathostva, for a fortnight during kammanna
habba, a grand festival will be there throughout DD and there will be lot of families who
will arrange for food, coffee, breakfast, etc. and also there one family arranges for
BALABHOJANA which starts around 11 am in the morning itself as the regular lunch on the
day of Rathostva will be around 3 p.m

Hot to go :There are 2 routes to this place.

1) From banglore, go till Dobbespet. Go under the flyover and take a right. (note: The left
here leads to Shivagange betta and right leads to Devarayandurga.) This road is in quite
bad shape and it's a longer approach to Devarayanadurga. On this route you get
Devarayanadurga first, and then as you go towards Kyatsandra.
2) The other route from banglore is from Kyatsandra. About 1Km after crossing second toll
gate on Tumkur road take right at Kyatsandra. After crossing railway level cross you reach
Siddaganga Mutt then Namada chilume then Hanuman Temple and finally
Devarayanadurga. The roads on this side are much better and this route is shorter.is
around 62KM from Bangalore.
there are few bus gooing to Devarayanadurga from bangalore and Tumkur. At the
Bhoganarasimha temple, they start the abhisheka for the lord after the bus from
Bangalore reach the temple, which is good for the people who come from Bangalore.

Contact Information :
Sri Panchamukhi Dasaru 944 861 2999
Dasa Koota : 0816 2265450
 Hi Vijay,
Thanks for writing wonderfully about the places on mysore road, but there is a small
correction required to reach the place called Brahmanyapura. You have mentioned that
(there is a lake to the left) you have to take a right turn and go 6kms in the same road.
Actually to go to brahmanyapura from bangalore direction on mysore road, you have to
take a left just after the lake, the lake is called Kunneeera katte and after travelling
around 3 to 4 kms on the road, you get a temple on the road called Vadda
Hanumantharayana gudi after this temple, you have to take a right turn to reach
brahmanyapura Praanadevara temple. Why I am telling you all this is because, I am
born into the family who are maintaining this temple and it belongs to our family. You can
also try and cover the Kambada Narasimha article on top of a hill. To reach Kambada
narasimha from mysore road, take left as told above and from Vadda
Hanumantharayana gudi, go straight to reach that hill to the left of the road. To reach
brahmanyapura, u take right from Vaddahanumantharayana gudi. OK. Please let me
know if you need further details my email ID is sreesha.br@gmail.com

Providing information is a great job and I am really benefited by reading this web site.
Thank you very much and I will make use of this information.

R. V. Raja Rao raghurao_tax@yahoo.com

shrilekha said...

We visited the place on Madhava Navami. Directions given by Mr Sreesha were perfect.
We are very grateful to Sri Gopalachar w ho helped us.we saw the pooja and had

prasada at the math. We are very happy that we received the blessings of Almighty on
that special day

9:38 PM

Many Thanks for this informative post. Yesterday my family members and I visited Abbur
Matha, Malur Krishna temple and the Srinivasa temple in Channapatna. We went to
Brahmanyapura but both the temple and the Archak's house was locked so we couldn't

Some Additional Informations on the contents of the mail below.

1. The Kanva River at Abboor has dried out long time back.

2. The picture with the title Abboor.jpg, is actually of the avatara mukhya prANa at
Brahmanya Pura (Brahmani Pura)

consecrated by the yati thrayaru - Sri Brahmanya Theertharu, Sri Sri Padarajaru and Sri
Vyasarajaru.

3. Additional information about Brahmanyapura -

Brahmanya Pura is a small village with less than 100 houses, which is around 4 kms from
Channapatna.

Location: Just before you reach Channa patna from BLR, you get a big lake (dried out) on
your left hand side with railings on both sides. Just after the lake, take a left turn. Drive
for 3 kms and you get a temple with the garuda kambha at the center of the road.

Take a right turn here and travel 1 km to reach Brahmanya Pura.

The temple with the idol shown is at the entrance of the village infront of a huge banyan
tree. There is only one MAdhwa house, belonging to descendants of Abbur Mutt, and he
takes care of the pooje at fixed timings.

Incase you want to visit the temple, make sure you inform him first hand.

If you go back 1 km and stand at the garuda kambha at the middle of the road, you can see
a hillock which actually has the

Kambhada Narasimha. The story is that Sri Brahmanya Theertharu used to go from Abbur to
this place every day

to worship and he had a small pond dug out at brahmanya pura to help him out for ahnika.

Once upon a time the whole place was filled with Madhwas and shishyas of Sri Brahmanya
theertharu.

Rgds

Harish
From: Narahari Sumadhwa <naraharisumadhwa@...>
To: MadhwaYuvaParishat@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 9:31:18 PM
Subject: [MYP] BRAHMANYA THEERTHARA ARADHANA 20.05.2009, 21.5.2009 [7
Attachments]

hare srinivasa

Many people are enquiring about the whereabouts of

Brahmanyapura/ Abbur. That is why I hv given here some
information about Abbur:-

ABBUR- The Brindhavana of Sri Brhmanya Theertharu across the

KANVA RIVER and surrounded by green fields there emerges a
calm serine village ABBUR, the divine resting place of Sri
Brhmanya Theertharu.

Abbur is around 70 kms from Bangalore on the Bangalore-Mysore

Highway.
Bus facility is very good , Train facility, to Channapatna from
Mysore, Bangalore, Mandya, Maddur, etc.

If you take a bus going to Mysore from Bangalore, get down at

Chanapatna and from there take an auto to Abbur. It is around
6Km from Chanapatna on the way to Kanva
reservoir. Also there is local bus from Chanapatna to Abbur. For
Araadhana, special taxies/buses will be there from Channapatna.

In Channapatna - there is Vyasaraja Mutt

Other visiting places near Abbur-

1. Malur - It is about 2 kms from Channapatna, where u can see
Malur Aprameya temple
(see Malur Aprameya Photo) in the attachment.

2. Purushottama Guhe - It is about 3 kms from Abbur, where

Purushottama Theertharu entered the cave and he never
returned. It is believed that he is still there doing tapassu..

3. Kambada Narasimha devaru - in Brahmanya pura

4. Mukhyaprana devaru -
5. Kengal Hanumantharaya - Vyasaraja prathistita
From: A. Purushothama Rao <appala_2000@ yahoo.com>
To: Narahari Sumadhwa <naraharisumadhwa@ yahoo.in>
Sent: Wednesday, 20 May, 2009 10:34:48 AM
Subject: Re: [vishwamadhvasangha ] BRAHMANYA THEERTHARA
ARADHANA 20.05.2009, 21.5.2009 [4 Attachments]

Narahari avare,
Namaskara. Where is this brhmanya pura. Your articles give us a lot of information. I wonder
how and where you collect so much infomation and also upload them for the benefit of all of us.

A. Purushothama Rao
Hare shrinivasa

Contact Details of Abbur Mutt Sri Hari Feb 3, 201

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Re: Contact Details of Abbur Mutt 6:44 pm
Hare Srinivasa, Kindly contact Sri Gopinathacharya @ 081137265243 Thanks
and Regards, Ajay Puranik To: MadhwaYuvaParishat@yahoogroups.com
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