Sri Kalabhairaveshwara Prasanna
SriKalabhairaveshwaraSwamy
Manakathuru · Arsikere Taluk · Hassan District
A Karthika Deepotsava night
Tap the screen to light a lamp of your own
೧Darshan
The god who guards the village
Kalabhairava is the fierce form of Shiva. We believe he watches over the village and this sacred place. He holds the trishula and the damaru, and the dog walks with him.
On festival days he wears the silver prabhavali and is covered in flowers.
About the temple೨Jatra
All devotees are warmly invited
Sri Kalabhairaveshwara Jatra Mahotsava
Devotees pull the chariot, dressed in coloured cloth, flowers and coconuts. The biggest festival of the year, when the whole village and relatives from far away come together.
The ninth day after Maha Shivaratri
Poojas & festivals
೩Karthika Deepotsava
The procession of lamps
On Karthika nights the temple is lit with thousands of lamps.
Devotees carry blazing aarati on their heads to the temple, and a line of lamps fills the village street.
Deepotsava photographs
೪Inscription
What the stone says
The stone standing in the temple courtyard carries writing from 1101 CE, in the time of the Hoysalas.
It is not about this temple. But it names the gavundas who founded the village, then called “Managatur”.
- Date
- Śaka 1022 · 1101 CE
- Period
- Hoysala, King Vishnuvardhana
- Village founded by
- Chama-gavunda, Sanka-gavunda, Chatta-gavunda
- Temples named
- Moolasthana, Chaveshvara, Chikkeshvara
- Written by
- Senabova Kalimayya · carved by Maroja
Come to Manakathuru
Manakathuru, Arsikere Taluk, Hassan District, Karnataka