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VOl. 14 No. 2

SPLenDoUrS oF tHe SoUtH WONDROUS WARANGAL VICTORIOUS VIJAYNARAYANA

The Thousand Pillar Popularly known as Chennakeshava Temple, the
Temple in the town vijayanarayana Temple in Karnataka was built to
of hanamakonda is an commemorate the victory of the hoysalas over the
example of Kakatiya Cholas in the great battle of the Talakad. it took 103
architecture, built by years and talented craftsmen to build this magnificent
King rudra Dev. This stone temple.
temple is dedicated to Sukrutha, VIIA, ACTS Secondary School, Bengaluru
lord shiva, Vishnu and
surya. The thousand pillars are ornately carved and a
monolith Nandi statue is placed at the entrance.
TALAkADU CURSE
ramalingeswara Temple was built by the Kakatiyas.it
is popularly known as the ramappa Temple. it was Talakadu is a temple town
named after the architect of the temple, ramappa. situated on the banks of
river Kaveri in Karnataka. it
Tejasvi, VIIB , Gitanjali Devakul, Hyderabad; Spandana. J, VIC , has 30 temples. The name is
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Atmakuri Rama Rao School, Hyderabad; Illustration by: G. Vaishnavi, IXR,
N. Tapan Siddhart, IXE, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Public School, believed to be derived from Royal Park School, Salem
Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad two brothers — Tala and Kadu
who had discovered an image
of lord shiva. according to a
“LE PAkSHI” JATAYU legend, Talakadu was once a
vibrant historical city that got
The veerabhadra Swamy Temple in lepakshi, submerged under the sand
anantapur district of andhra Pradesh was built in due to a curse. another legend
the 16th century. it is often linked to the epic, the relates to the Mysore royal
ramayana. legend has it that the bird Jatayu fell here family’s inability to produce a
after a battle against ravana. lord rama reached male heir since the 17th century.
the spot, he saw the bird and said to him, “le Pakshi” Nithin Reddy and Priya Patel,
— meaning “arise, bird” in Telugu. interestingly, the VII A, ACTS Secondary School,
temple has total of 70 pillars and one of its pillars Bengaluru; Chatush, VIII D,
National Hill View Public School,
which forms the base of the entire temple structure, Bengaluru
actually does not completely touch the ground!
Illustration by: Madhav Kukreja, VIII
Himanshu Meena, VII B, Jankidevi Public School Jaipur and Mansi A, Scholars Home Sr. Sec. School,
Pawariya, VIIC , Delhi Police Public School, Delhi Dehradun

SACRED ST. FRANCIS CHURCH
BEAUTIFUL BOJJANAkONDA St. francis Church is a famous Church in Fort Kochi. it is

Bojjanakonda Hills is few miles away from a well-known church where the body of explorer Vasco
Visakhapatnam. The hill depicts numerous monolithic da gama was originally buried. initially a simple
stupas and rock-cut caves. it forms one of the most wooden structure, it was built in
remarkable buddhist architectural marvels of the 4th- the year 1503, by Portuguese
9th century. stupas and chaityas have been carved traders and dedicated to st
from the rocks. There are six rock-cut caves of which bartholomew. in 1506, the
some have sculptured panels depicting the various raja of Cochin permitted
episodes from lord buddha’s life. the Portuguese Viceroy to
reconstruct the structure in
Soumita Bhattacharyya, IX, Bethany School, Visakhapatnam; G. Geeth,
VII B, D.A.V.C. Public School, Visakhapatnam stone.

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