Sri Chintala Venkata Ramana Swamy Temple - Tadipatri



Sri Chintala Venkataramana Swamy Temple is located in Tadipatri town in Anantapur district in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

 

Venkata Ramana Swamy is an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. He is 10 feet tall.

 

On Mukkoti Ekadasi day the sun rays touch the feet of Venkataramana Swany for 3 days continuously (Ekadasi, Dwadashi, trayodasi) which happens once a year.

 

This temple was built during the 16th century.

 

One fine day Villagers living nearby heard huge noise from a Tamarind tree. The Villagers gathered around Tree to inspect and were surprised to see Vishnu Idol lying inside the Tree hole. Hence the name Chinthala Venkataramana Swamy Temple.

 

The Raja Gopuram faces the east and is a solid structure, built using stone and brick. The stone part contains figures of Vidyadhara, Apsaras and Avatars, Elephants, and Horses arranged on different levels. Behind the Mukhamandapa is a Rangamandapa, which has scenes of the Ramayana and rare sculptures of the Vishnu avatars, the Mukhamandapa has forty pillars in the Vijayanagar style. In the temple courtyard, Dhwaja Stambham is there, which is more than the height of the temple walls.

 

Pillars and Temple walls were sculptured with images from the epics of Ramayana, Mahabharatha, and Bhagavatha. These sculptures were carved in a sequence that narrates the epics. One should not miss the carvings of Kaliya Mardhana Krishna's room from the Mahabharata and sequences from the Ramayana on the walls of the corridor (mandap). There is an octagonal-shaped flower on the roof of the corridor and the temple was built in the time of the Vijayanagar dynasty.

 

 

Temple Timings: 6am to 1pm & 4pm to 8pm.

 

 

How to reach the Temple :

 

56 km from Anantapur & 108 Km from Kadapa.

 

1km from Tadipatri

 

 

Nearby Temples :

 

Tadipatri, Sri Bugga Ramalingeswara Swamy Temple – 1 km

Aluru Kona, Sri Ranganatha Swamy Temple – 12 km  

Yaganti Sri Umamaheswara Swamy Temple – 73km

Kasapuram Sri Nettikanti Anajaneya Swamy Temple– 84km

Kadiri Lakshmi Narsimha Swamy Temple – 105km.

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