🕉 #Thread Amazing Ananthapadmanabhaswamy Lake Temple,Kasaragod,Kerala -Moolasthan of Padmanabhaswamy temple,Thiruvananthapuram is guarded by a Vegetarian Crocodile,that lives in the lake & lives only on the prasad offered to it by devotees & temple staff 🚩1/5 @chitranayal09 
🕉Anantha Lake Temple’s original Bhagwan Vishnu’s Murthy in the sanctum sanctorum is not made of metal or stone, but of a rare combination of 108 medicinal materials called `kadu-sharkara-yogam.' & is in a sitting pose on the coils of a five-hooded Serpent king Adhi Sesha 🚩2/5
🕉 Anantha Lake Temple’s Sanctum Sanctorum is in 2 Acres lake gifted with perennial supply of pure spring water also has a cave Thro which Bhagwan AnanthaPadmanabha went all way to Thiruvananthapuram. The Temple’s Stone wall is like a serpent with its hoods spread🚩3/5
🕉 Anantha Lake Temple’s Sreekovil (sanctum sanctorum), Namaskara-mandapam, Thittapalli & shrines of Jala-Durga & entrance of the cave are located in the lake. The Namaskara Mandapam is connected to the eastern rock by a foot-bridge which is the only passage to the Sanctum🚩4/5
🕉 Anantha Lake temple has beautiful wood carvings & paintings on ceilings of the Mandapam depicting stories of Dashavatharam (10 incarnations of Lord Vishnu), NavaGrahas(9 planets). On either side of the Sanctum- Dwara-palakas-Jaya & Vijaya are beautifully carved in wood🚩5/5
