From Cuddapah one has to travel to Allagadda, which is forty miles over and from there by bus to Ahobilam.Īhobhilam also known as Ahobalam is located in the Allagadda mandal of Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh, India. The other and easy route is to get down at Kadapa which is a district headquarters and an important railway station in the Madras – Bombay route. The second route is from Dhone which is another railway station and from which one can reach Ahobilam via Banganapalle and Koilkuntla. Pilgrims from the north can get down at Nandyal, which is a Railway junction from Kurnool, and travel by bus to Allagadda and Ahobilam, which is only thirty miles from Nandyal. There are three routes reaching Ahobilam. Ahobilam is not connected by rail the closest railway stations are Nandyal (on the Bangalore– Vizag(Visakhapatnam) route) and Cuddapah (on the Mumbai– Chennai route). Location and Transport It is conveniently accessible by bus from Nandyal, Kurnool and Hyderabad. She put him through a lot of tests completely before agreeing to marry him. On seeing her, Lord Narasimha asked her to marry him.
She took form as Chenchu Lakshmi, a tribal girl, in the same forest. The devas were worried about this form and prayed to Goddess Lakshmi to pacify him. Chenchu Lakshmi or Maha LakshmiĪfter slaying Hiranyakashyapa, Lord Narasimha proceeded to the Nallamala forest in his UgraAvataram (aggressive form). Lord Narasimha appears in different forms as Ugra Murthi(aggressive form), Shanta Murthy (tranquil form), Yoga Murthy (in penance) and Kalyana Murthy with his consort Sri Chenchu Lakshmi. There are several Narsimha temples in the surrounding hills like Pamuleti Narasimhaswamy, which are popular among local populations.
Lower Ahobilam temple deity is said be installed by Tirumala lord Venkateswara himself before his wedding, since the lord of upper Ahobilam has a Ugra (angry) form. In between the 2 hills is a deep gorge like a cleft. The pillar’s base stone is thus, on the edge of the cliff. It is believed that the entire mountain split up into two, due to the impact of pillar getting shattered by God and God rising from it subsequently. The pillar from which the God arose is marked by its base stone and can be accessed after an almost vertical climb up the hill. This place still has remnants, relics and ruins of the demon’s palace. Ahobilam is the exact location of the demon Hiranyakashupu’s palace, which the epic stories of Lord Narasimha speak of. Lord Vishnu took form as Lord Narasimha (a complex form of half-man and half-lion) to be able to destroy the demon. Hiranyakasyapa(son of Sage Kashyapa) asked for specific boons to ensure his immortality and attained demonicpowers due to these boons.
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