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Travel Blog - Odisha Tour - Nov 2017 - Golden Age Travels

on October 11, 2024

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Travel Blog - Odisha Tour - Nov 2017 - Golden Age Travels

This was the first tour of the Golden Age Travels. We were six of us, my daughter, Mona joined later, so total seven guests. We had booked the hotel Mango Prangan in Bhubaneswar which was very close to the railway station. The hotel was good, but a little expensive and the rooms were small in size. I had booked two cabs, the drivers were young, always on time and very talkative. 24th Nov 2017 - Bhubaneswar We had only the evening for visiting, so since most of the temples would be about to close, went to Nand Kanan Zoo which had very healthy animals and many white tigers. We booked a battery operated car and it was fun. 25th Nov 2017 After breakfast we went to visit Rajarani temple, Lingeswar temple, Parashurameshwar temple and Mukteshwar temple. After lunch, we visited Dhaulagiri, it was very nice and then we saw Udayagiri and Khandagiri caves. It was difficult to climb, but the effort was with it. 26th Nov 2017 After breakfast, we started for PUri. On the way, we vis...

My visit to Mookambika temple, Kollur

Demon Kamhasura got the boon from Lord Shiva that no male can kill him. He started troubling Gods and sages and also disrupted the penance of sage Kola who was performing pooja to Shiva Linga. Sage Kola prayed to Godess Parvati for help. She took the form of Trishool-Nayaki to kill him. The demon Kamhasura came to know that he will be killed by a female Goddess, so he again started praying to Lord Shiva. When Lord Shiva appeared in front of him to fulfill his desire, Devi Parvati made him dumb (mooka) so that he could not ask for a boon, from then the demon was known as Mookasura. Goddess Parvati with the help of Veerabhadra killed him, the place where Mookasura was killed is now called Marna Katte. The village Kollur is named after the sage Kola who was shown the Swarnalekha Lingam by none other than Lord Shiva. When the saint asked Lord Shiva how he could worship the lingam without Goddess Parvati; Lord Shiva replied on the left side of the lingam were all teh three manifestatio...

My visit to Udipi Krishna Temple

It is believed that Vishwakarma made this idol of lord Krishna which was later discovered by Madhavacharya, the great devotee of Lord Krishna. Mother Yashoda, the foster mother of Shri Krishna enjoyed his baal leela of Shri Krishna, but mother Devaki could not. So to honour his mothers wish, Shri Krishna took the form of child and demonstrated all his playful activities. Mother Devaki was overjoyed, Rukmini, Krishna's wife also adored the Baal leela. She requested Krishna to make an idol of Bala Krishna. Vishwakarma made the idol with the holi Saligram stone. The idol was worshipped with sandalpaste and gradually got totally covered with sandal in the course of time. After dwapara yuga, the city Dwaraka was completely washed away by the sea. Centuries passed, the sandalblock was accidentally found by a sailer as a hard rock, who began using it as a weight to balance the ship. One day, Madhavacharya was doing pooja at Malpe beach. He saw a ship sialing in the sea was in dange...