Sri Hidambeswara Gudi

Nagashri Bhat 16 months ago

So nice architecture on the top of the hill ...view from here is so amazing. Entire city can be viewed from here .temple also so beautiful. Beware of the monkeys .steps to this temple is slippery. Yet manageable. Inside this temple also beautiful architecture we can see. Doors stairs piller are stunning.

Pranav Rathi 22 months ago

A very beautiful temple on the top of the rock in the Chitradurga fort. A big piece of bone has been kept in the temple and is shown as the tooth of the demon Hidambasura, and a cylinder of iron plates, six feet high and ten feet in circumference, as the bheri or kettle-drum of Bhima. A figure of Hidambasura is sculptured on the Vimana. In the Siddheshwara Temple also is kept a piece of bone much larger than that kept in the Hidimbeshvara temple, which also is believed to be as the tooth of Hidambasura.
In Mahabharat after the Lakshagrah event Pandavs were hiding and they came to South India and visited Karnatka. Here Bhima Killed Hidmbasura and married Hidimbi (his sister) who was the mother of Ghatochkacha. The temple in Chandravalli caves was also established by them and they stayed there for sometime. After the marriage they left Bihma with Hidmbi and went to south. If you go little south there is a place called Kunti Beta near Mysore (good hiking place) where they stayed for a while and where Bheam Killed Bakasur, all this story is in the Mahabharat serial.
Karnataka had a very important place in both Ramayana and Mahabharat history.

Dr Darkknight 22 months ago

The temple is situated inside the chitradurga fort .

This is open only 3 times a year and those are during bheema jayanthi and rest of the time we can just see the outside beauty of the temple.

Hidambeswara is none other than ghatodhgaja , son of bheema ..
The story goes lik this ,, it's love story between the demon hadimba and bheema.

Elder brother of hadimba was angry about that , and challenges to defeat bheema ,but bheema smashes his mace (gadha) and hadimba's brother collapses , and he accepts the defeat and while he was in the death bed ,he asks bheema to name their kid as hidambeswara if boy or hidambeswari if girl child . However bheema keeps his son name as Ghatodhgaja.