NARAYANA
Now we are at Hedathale
Lakshmi Kantha Swamy temple
How did this place derive the name Hedathale?
What is the specialty of this temple?
How to reach here?
Come Let's see all of these
My name is Narayana
Since last 31years, I have been serving this God
This temples name is Lakshmi Kantha Swamy Temple
Hedathale is the name of this village
From Nanjangud it is 12 kms
This temple is a Thrikutachala
Thrikutachala means there are three main worship place within one temple
Lakshmi Kantha, Lakshmi Narasimha, Venugopala
These three gods are there.
This was built in 1182 C E
Hoysala Veera Ballala III got this temple constructed, thus its written in the inscriptions
Can you see the elephant here
What happened was
Hoysalas Balla III was the ruler
Then the sculptor makes a promise
That on such an such a day, such an such time
before Sunrise
I will complete the temple and go from here
He constructed the temple
Last day, the Elephant work was to be done
He started sculpting
By the time he comes to this part the sun rises
So at that point he stops
Come on this side
See He has made the sketch
A rough sketch
but he didnt finish
You can make out right, that its an elephant
It was all buried underneath
During renovation they found all these one by one
Pooje timing 7;00 -9:30 am evening 6:30- 8:30
Sri Lakshnikanta swamy temple
16 faced Mantapa
There is a reason why this place got the name Hedathale
Actually its not hedathale, its Yedathale
yeda means Left
Back in those days Koundilya Maharishi was believed to be around this area
Here Koundilya Maharishi installed the Venugopala
Then Venugopala told him that you give blessings for progeny to all those who come and ask you
Thus he was installed as Santana (child or progeny ) Venugopala by Koundilya Maharishi
There was a river called Koundi back then,
now it doesn't exist
At the bank of that river in various places rishis (Sage)
Used to do Homa and Havana
These poor Rishis used to do Homa Havana and
poornahavathi which is done at the end
At that time, somewhere here was a Rakshasa (Demon)
He was enormously huge
He would come running at that exact time
and Stamp that homa
Or pour blood over it
This way he would spoil their homa
They could not do anything
No way he could be controlled
As he was of Huge size and that too a Rakshasa
Then these rishis when to Koundilya Maharishi and requested him
For a solution to their problem
How to get protection from him?
So Koundilya Maharishi does penance to Narayana
Narayana appears before him
Asks him, What is it Rishi?
So he requests for the Rakshasa to be killed.
Thus Narayana Kills the Rakshasa
In Kannada big tree is known as Hemmara
Grown in big size
That Rakshasas legs were as huge as a Huge tree
So you can imagine how tall he would have been
Narayana cut both the legs of the
Rakshasa and threw it one side
That place is known as Hemm(HUGE) mara(Tree) Kaala (legs)
Translates to mean the legs which were like a huge trees
Now its called Hemmmaragala
Narayana cuts that Rakshasas head and
Throws it to the left side of the place
That head comes and falls in this village
Hence Yeda (left) thale(head)
The head which fell on the left side
In Sanskrit this place was known as Vamashura Nagara in olden days
Now it's known as Yedathale
And in common usage has become Hedathale
Even here the small banana bunch style
This is in Hoysala style
thereafter
Also there are four tigers
Hoysalas emblem was tiger
Bhimanna Dandanayaka the palyegara (ruler) got this 16 faced Chavadi constructed
Chavadi means a place where three to four people gather
and discuss good things
This is 16 faced Chavadi
This chavadi has 16 faces
Now if I sit on a seat,
This seat is 3 feet above the ground
This way there are 16 seats
That's why its called 16 faced
Each seat is considered as a face
Hence 16 faces
Each seat is facing a different direction
Now I am sitting on facing the North
This seat is facing the west
So this is west and north
again here is west and there a north
So we have four
four faces
see here
That face is towards south
That is facing west
So south and west
eight faces
Again you can see here
This is face East
The one next to it is North
Again next is East and North
So total four into four
is 16 faces
There was a palyegara (ruler) here
named Bhimanna Dandanayaka
He got this 16 faced Chavadi constructed
Why did he get it Constructed?
It was because he had 16 daughters
He got all 16 daughters married
So including their husband they were 32
The king and the queen had a desire like all of us that
To See their daughters frequently
But if they visit their daughters turn by turn,
then the administrative requirements of the place would suffer as they were 16 of them
If they go to one house then the other may complain
Then the other would complain
with these issues,
to find a solution
They would fix a day and invite all of them over
So they all would come to Hedathale
The Kind Queen daughters and the son in laws would all gather here
From morning to evening pass time
for entertainment they had
singing concert, a dance programme, or some cultural programme
it was Kings time, no dreath of luxury or food
till evening they would pass time
and return to their respective homes
In this situation
where all gather and talk
King and Queen had a confusion
That which one out of the 16 son in law s seated there
out of these 16, who is which son in law
If there were few it would have been easy to remember
But with 16 son in laws
who is the 5th who is the 15th ?
It was causing great confusion
So to identify the right son in law
He thought how this can be done
So he gets this16 faced Chavadi built
As i have shown you
After constructing the 16 faced chavadi what he does is
in each seat get each pair to sit In numerical order
Daughter & Son-in-law
16 seats for 16 pairs
Each seat each pair
They were made to sit in numerical order
1 -2 - 3 - 4- 5 - 6 - 7 - 8...
that way in an order
Come I will show you
This was seat 1
the eldest daughter and son in law used to sit here
Second pair here
third here and so on up to 16
Now no confusion
Now where do King and Queen sit?
There was a Mantapa behind the gate
I forgot to mention one thing
till 1998 this was an abandoned temple
Rain water used to come in
There used to be mud everywhere
Dogs used to sleep here
It was in bad condition
In 1998 Dr. Veerendra Hegde of Dharmasthala
Saw this temple and took up restoration work
Then TVS Motors, Venu Srinivasan and Gopal Srinivasan
Both the owners
Took care of all the expenses
The main reason for this was Sri Sri Sri Rangapriya Mahadeswhwaran Mahaswamy
Through him only got their contacts
Through these generous benevolent people
They took care of restoration
During the restoration time
here was a mantapa
The Mantapa here was removed
How the Mantapa was
From here it was 4 feet inside like a room
A mantapa
3 feet inside the gate
5 feet height was a seat
The other seats here are 3 feet height
The King and queen would sit on it and see
They could see everything
in this angle everyone were visible
This center place was the stage
Here music, singing dance was held
All could see this place from where they sat
One specialty of this chavadi was
In our Hindu culture
Two generations before
There was a practice,
Mother in law would not see her son-in –law directly face to face
The minute he comes they would go in
Even to give food or refreshments they would send it through others
It never used to happen that she would face them directly and enquire about their well being
Now that practice is no more
The generation has changed
This practice was there before 60 years
This 16 faced chavadi has a history of 350-360 years
This practice back then how strong it would have been
We can imagine how strict it would have been
See how its built
Keeping that practice in mind
King sits here
For the King can see all 32 people all his daughters and son in laws
Where as
But the queen can only see her daughters
The daughter's husband sitting next to them are not visible to Queen
This is the specialty of this 16 faced Chavadi
This is a proof that architects existed back then
All these distance are different
May be they have used some geometric theorem to align these pillars
How it is aligned is
But the queen can only see her daughters
King can see both
I will show you the demo
The place where you are is the queen's place
See for her, the daughter is visible
not son in law
This is third seat
Here daughter
Here son in law
4th daughter
son in law
5th daughter,
son in law
This is seventh daughter
This is seventh son in law
6th daughter, son in law
6th son in law
So this was for queen
Now I will show for the King
See for King
This daughter
this son in law
both visible
Daughter here
Son in law
See for King he is able to see both
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