Its about 80 KM from Hyderabad. For a long time me and Raju wanted to visit that place.
That day i woke up late , when i looked out the sky was cloudy , i called Raju and he said fine. Venu joined us.
As always with most of the single day trips, we started from the cafe, then went for petrol. The traffic was less, with just a couple of stops for chai, we reached kolanupaka by 2PM or so. To reach that place, one has to take left turn at Aleru, cross the railway gate and then right. The road was not so good from Aleru to Kolanupaka, but manageable.
Kolanupaka Jain Temple , also known as Kulpkji temple for Hindi speaking people, belongs to 10th century and of first Jain theerthakara Rishaba.
It was renovated and reopened in 2008. I am not sure, why a temple, only visited mostly by north indians , needs such big gates, with insanely big locks. Mobiles, cameras, jackets and helmets are not allowed in the temple, so could not any pics inside.
When i entered, there is a board asking visitors not to visit the place in black cloths. Luckily , security personnel are lenient about that. Two rock elephants welcomed us to the temple complex. The complex has three temples, there were no guides, no priests to tell us anything. According to wikipedia, Rishaba must be there, and i was not sure, which temple belongs to him, because, even warnings are written in Hindi, the security guard inside the temple the doesnot know Telugu or English and its hard to comprehend what he is speaking.
Ritually, we covered all three temples one after another, without having any knowledge. But there is one thing to be noticed, after renovation, most of the wall sculptures belongs to Lord Vishnu. Surely, Jainism didnt really get mixed in Hinduism yet and the process is still on.
So far i was bored with that place. At the exit, there is a library, but its closed, so there is no way , i can know more about the temple. We collected our things and came out to encounter a Jhatkawala who asked us to have a ride.
There is a Sivalayam and a Museum in the to-do list. I thought it would be fun to ride in that, everybody said OK, so we got ourselves a jhatka, The Jhatkawala , Maisayya, gave the reins to me and taught me how to ride it. It was very easy than i anticipated. To make the horse go left , pull the left rein, same with the right, to make it stop, pull both the reins.
So we reached someswara swamy temple, which is in ruins. The place is cluttered with damaged and unfinished statues. We did not get to see the actual temple, but we covered everything , above, below and on the both the sides of it. We got into Jhatka, me driving again, returned to the temple. Apparently, many Marwadis visit that place, and they have a cottage there. And they are building a new temple, right behind the original one.
Amala Akkineni, visited that place, and our Jhatkawala had a photo with her. He keeps it in his wallet, like old hindi heroes keep their wife pictures. I dont know if Hero Nagarjuna keeps her pic in his wallet or not but the Jhatkawala does.
I proposed to have a tea, but Raju was hungry so we decided to have lunch. We have crossed Aleru, and police stopped us to show the papers. We bargained with him and paid a 100 for lack of license and insurance. Then we stopped at Peddakandukuru, to have a tea. This is the small hotel, i ritually visit whenever i go by that way. Simply because i like the painting on the wall there.
We tried emu dish for lunch, that was a total disaster. Then heavy rain struck us, luckily we reached Bibi Nagar by then and took shelter in a cafe. Then i remembered that , we forgot visiting the museum there.
When rain struck us again, we were at boduppal and this time used a petrol bunk to cover our heads. Finally reached the cafe where we have started at around 9PM.
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That day i woke up late , when i looked out the sky was cloudy , i called Raju and he said fine. Venu joined us.As always with most of the single day trips, we started from the cafe, then went for petrol. The traffic was less, with just a couple of stops for chai, we reached kolanupaka by 2PM or so. To reach that place, one has to take left turn at Aleru, cross the railway gate and then right. The road was not so good from Aleru to Kolanupaka, but manageable.
Kolanupaka Jain Temple , also known as Kulpkji temple for Hindi speaking people, belongs to 10th century and of first Jain theerthakara Rishaba.It was renovated and reopened in 2008. I am not sure, why a temple, only visited mostly by north indians , needs such big gates, with insanely big locks. Mobiles, cameras, jackets and helmets are not allowed in the temple, so could not any pics inside.Ritually, we covered all three temples one after another, without having any knowledge. But there is one thing to be noticed, after renovation, most of the wall sculptures belongs to Lord Vishnu. Surely, Jainism didnt really get mixed in Hinduism yet and the process is still on.
So far i was bored with that place. At the exit, there is a library, but its closed, so there is no way , i can know more about the temple. We collected our things and came out to encounter a Jhatkawala who asked us to have a ride.There is a Sivalayam and a Museum in the to-do list. I thought it would be fun to ride in that, everybody said OK, so we got ourselves a jhatka, The Jhatkawala , Maisayya, gave the reins to me and taught me how to ride it. It was very easy than i anticipated. To make the horse go left , pull the left rein, same with the right, to make it stop, pull both the reins.So we reached someswara swamy temple, which is in ruins. The place is cluttered with damaged and unfinished statues. We did not get to see the actual temple, but we covered everything , above, below and on the both the sides of it. We got into Jhatka, me driving again, returned to the temple. Apparently, many Marwadis visit that place, and they have a cottage there. And they are building a new temple, right behind the original one.
Amala Akkineni, visited that place, and our Jhatkawala had a photo with her. He keeps it in his wallet, like old hindi heroes keep their wife pictures. I dont know if Hero Nagarjuna keeps her pic in his wallet or not but the Jhatkawala does.
I proposed to have a tea, but Raju was hungry so we decided to have lunch. We have crossed Aleru, and police stopped us to show the papers. We bargained with him and paid a 100 for lack of license and insurance. Then we stopped at Peddakandukuru, to have a tea. This is the small hotel, i ritually visit whenever i go by that way. Simply because i like the painting on the wall there.We tried emu dish for lunch, that was a total disaster. Then heavy rain struck us, luckily we reached Bibi Nagar by then and took shelter in a cafe. Then i remembered that , we forgot visiting the museum there.When rain struck us again, we were at boduppal and this time used a petrol bunk to cover our heads. Finally reached the cafe where we have started at around 9PM.
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