Sundar the traveller

  Bayalu Anjaneyaswamy – A Hidden Treasure. Vyasaraja, the spiritual guru of King Krishnadevaraya, is one of the ardent follower and preacher of Dvaita philosophy.   This temple is one of 732 hanuman temples installed by him.   There are two legendary stories revolving around the number of 732 temples, he had built.   One story is that as and when he had defeated a Jain scholar, he will install one temple with Lord Hanuman.   This does not hold good as, for his greatness as mentioned by the historians,   he would have never celebrated his triumphs.   He should have rather treated the defeated scholars with kindness and respect.   Another story is in his earlier avatar as Bahlika Raja, (second being Prahlada, third Vyasaraja and fourth Raghavendra Swamy) during the time of Pandavas and Kauravas fight of Mahabharata.   During the war with the mace, he hit Bheema, who is considered as an avatar of Hanuman himself, 732 time before he was defeated by Bhima.   So as a way of washing a

This is about another temple visit that is situated on a hilltop.   Polur is a sleepy town 34 kms towards north from Thiruvannamalai. Thiruvannamalai is well known to all being one of the five Shiva Temples each one dedicated to one of the five elements of nature as per hindu mythology.  Accordingly it is land for Kanchipuram, water for Thiruvanaikaval, sky for Chidambaram, fire for Thiruvannamalai and finally wind for Kalahasthi. Polur is having a small hill and on the top of it the self-manifested Narasimhar was found.  The legend of the temple is that the self-manifested idol of Narasimhar was prayed by none other than the lord of wealth "Kuberan".  Normally in the Hindu culture there will be a stone idol called as "Moolavar" and replica in metal, preferably panchalogam, called “ Urchavar".  In this temple the Urchavar was not there. At a later date it was found in the nearby river bed Seyyar. So the speciality of the temple is both Moolavar and Urchav