Temples of Telangana

Kancherla Gopanna, a revenue official under the Qutb Shahi kingdom of Golconda, spends the revenue he collects on the Bhadrachalam temple and is imprisoned at Golconda for it. In the devotional tradition, Rama and…

At Daksha's sacrifice Sati gives up her body in a yogic fire. Shiva carries the body in grief until Vishnu cuts it apart, and each place where a part falls becomes a seat of the Goddess. Alampur is not in the Devi…

• 5 · Ashtadasa Shakti Peetha

Yada, son of the sage Rishyasringa and Santa Devi, does penance in a cave on the hill between Bhongir and Raigiri, with Anjaneya's blessing. Narasimha appears to him in five forms, later carved as the Pancha…