Jyothi Lingam Malligarjunar

Mahonnadham Mahakasam Mahodharam Mahabujam
Mahavaktram Mallika arjunam Jyothi-swaroopam Namosthude

Sri Parvadha Mountain (Srisailam) houses the famous temple of Lord Siva known as Mallikarjuna which is one of the twelve Juothirlinga kshetrams. The Sakthi here is known as Brammarambal. This is also a great Sakthi peetam.

The creater Brahma also has a place with other icons in this temple.There is a lake called Pathala-Ganga. If one takes a dip in this lake, it is said he certainly will have perfect control over his mind and purity of thoughts. All the benefits can be attaind even with only a 'manaseega darshan' ( darshan in one's mind ) of the Lord.

The popular legend is that princess Chandravathi was the daughter of king Chandra-gupta who ruled from the Chandragupta-Pattinam (Country) on the northern banks of the Krishna river. The king was a valiant warrior who used to be absent from his court quite often due to various duties of a king.
The princess grew to be a lovely maiden with an affable and pious nature. One day the princess went to the Srisailam forest on the southern side of the river for prayer and penance. When she went to the forest she took some faithful herdsmen and some cattle with her. The princess lived mainly on the milk from the cows.

One day she observed that one of her cows was not giving milk when milked. Hence she ordered one of her herdsmen to watch over the cow. Accordingly he followed the cow observing its movements. He came back and reported to the princess that the cow was yielding milk over a Manikam stone (Ruby) image of a siva-lingam. The princess went over and saw this for herself. She was pondering over this miracle. The night Lord Shiva appeared in "Jyothiswaroopa" in her dream and asked her to build a temple around the Jyothir Linga. The Princess built a temple according to Lord's instructions and the Luminous Lord was named Sri Mallikarjuna.
This is an ancient and an important holy temple in Andra-Pradesh. Its sanctity dates back from the days of Mahabharatha.

                              Om Hreem Nama Sivaya

Location

There are good travel facilities to the temple.
From Kurnool,Guntur, and other places direct buses
to Srisailam are available.              Home