Last Saturday, we had plans to visit Srirangapatna and then to Melkote. A day before that I was browsing through Pbase.com/svami for any temples that are on the way. I was impressed by the Idol that was there on the Website and wanted to visit the temple. Immediately I took the number that was available from the website and called the priest. He gave a rough sketch of the route and asked me to call him when I start from Srirangapanta.
We started to Srirangapatna as per the plan on Saturday Morning/ Had Darshan of Sriranganatha Swamy, who was dressed in Raja Alangaram. Then we started to Kalahalli. The route was difficult as our driver often kept forgetting the name of the place. From Srirangapatna, we need to take a road towards to Pandavapura. The road would split into two, one towards Melkote on the right and we need to take the road towards left and should reach a place called Chinkulli and then should reach Bukinkere Village. From there it's just 3 kms away.
Anyways we can ask the local people for help. Better ask the route for Bukinkere from Pandavapura. We took almost an hour and a half, as a driver was not sure about the way and also the roads are not so great. We reached the place around 11.30 am. No one was there and the surroundings were beautiful. I learnt that the temple is around 2500 years old and the Salagrama Shila is the Aradhana god of Kanva Maharishi. We had called the priest Vijayakumar Bhattar as soon as we reached. He had asked us to take a dip in the river behind and told it's a triveni sangamam of River Kaveri, Hemavathi & Lakshmana Theertha.
More information can be found on the following link. ( Which helped me a lot of times to explore temples in Karnataka)
Also note that the temple is now being renovated and balalayam has been performed, The archakar does the rituals with utmost care and this can be observed when you are there
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