Srirangamannar at various Divya/Abhimana/Purana/Ithihasika Deshams

om namo narayanaya,

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Jaganmohana Ranganatha Temple Madhya Rangam

Madhyarangam is around 140 kms from Bangalore. After reaching maddur on the Bangalore-Mysore Highway, take left to join the Maddur-Kollegal road. Travel via malavali and take left at Sathyagala Hand Post to reach the temple. Cauvery flows along from Sathyagalam to Madhyarangam and branches into 2 beautiful falls.

Shared by Sridhar, Bangalore

shared by Sridhar, Bangalore

The Shivanasamudra Falls is on the Kaveri River after the river has wound its way through the rocks and ravines of the Deccan Plateau and drops off to form waterfalls. The island town of Shivanasamudra divides the river into twin waterfalls. This creates the fourth largest island in the rivers course. A group of ancient temples are located here and there likely was a village.

This is a segmented waterfall. Segmented waterfalls occur where the water flow is broken into two or more channels before dropping over a cliff, resulting in multiple side by side waterfalls. It has an average width of 849 meters, a height of 90 m, and an average volume of 934 cubic meters / sec. The maximum recorded volume is 18,887 cubic meters / sec. It is a perennial waterfall. The time of best flow are the monsoon season of July to October.

A common misconception about these waterfalls are that the left segment is called Gaganachukki and the right segment is called Bharachukki. In reality the Bharachukki falls are a few kilometers to the south-west of the Gaganachukki falls. This is due to the Kaveri river itself splitting a few kilometers to the south into western and eastern branches. The western branch results in the twin waterfalls of Gaganachukki, whereas the eastern branch results in the Bharachukki falls. The Gaganachukki waterfalls are best viewed from the Shivanasamudra watch tower. Most of the pictures showing the twin waterfalls are taken from that location. There is another approach to the Gaganachukki falls from the Darga Hazrath Mardane Gaib. Despite warnings being posted, people climb down the rocks and attempt to view the waterfalls from behind/top, resulting in many fatal accidents. It is 139 km from the city of Bangalore.

Bharachukki 

Gaganachukki 

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Shri Adhikesava Perumal temple – Thiruvattar

After my dharsan at Trivandrum, I left for Marthandam at 10am. I reached Marthandam at 11.20am. I took direct bus to Tiruvattaru (7kms from Marthandam and bus services are plenty) and 4 people traveled along with me including Driver and conductor. The temple closes at 11.30am and opens at 5pm. The bus reached Tiruvattaru at 11:35 and I rushed to the temple praying to Perumal for the temple to be open. To my surprise the temple was still open and I was asked to rush to have dharsan. I went inside and the bhattar asked me to wait for 15 minutes as the uchi Kala pooja was going on. I waited and had wonderful dharsan after 20 minutes. The temple closed at 12:30pm.
Marthandam is 30km from Nagerkoil and 55 kms from Trivandrum. From Marthandam you find plenty of buses which passes through Tiruvattaru. Buses from Marthandam to Kulasaekam, Pechiparai annai, stops at tiruvattaru.

Perumal is facing west so he is lying in the opposite direction. 

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Sri Anantha padmanabaswamy temple Tiruvananthapuram

On Saturday evening I left Mysore at 5pm by KSRTC Volvo bus and reached Trivandrum at 7am(Delay by 1hr). Got down in East fort bus stand. The Temple is 2mins walk from here. I took bath in temple kulam. (they charge 5rs for bath) and i left my bag/mobile in the cloak roam in front of temple. I entered the temple and there were no security personnel to stop and check me. As I entered the temple I was told that the next dharsan was at 8:30am. I went around the temple and  joined the dharsan queue at 8am. Dharsan started at 8:30am sharp and I had a very nice dharsan for 10 mins. There was no security persons inside the temple and dharsan was peaceful. I finished my dharsan at 9:15 am and I took bus to marthandam at 9:45am. I suggest you to forget about the media hype and visit the temple.

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