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Sri Dakshinamukha Nandi Tirtha.. this one of the mysterious temples of India found recently. This temple is also called ‘Nandi Tirtha’, ‘Nandishwara Tirtha’, ‘Malleshwaram Tirtha’, ‘Bhasava Tirtha’, ‘Malleswaram Nandi Gudi’ or ‘Sri Dakshinamukha Nandi Tirtha Kalyana

Kshetra’. None of the many other temples in Malleswaram is so cloaked in mystery and debate as the Nandeshwaram temple. The controversy starts from its date of existence. The temple is stated to be 400 years old, according to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).

Some other sources believe this temple to be 7000 years old, but there is no historical evidence of it.

The temple was accidentally discovered by a group of people digging the land for the building’s construction. The locals say that the temple was completely buried,

and the land above it was an empty lot. In 1997, a local politician sold that empty plot of land to a builder who started the construction works, and coincidently the worker found the intact stone courtyard supported by pillars.

The local residents protested the

further construction and informed the Archeological Survey of India (ASI), who took responsibility for excavating the site further. Surprisingly, the temple was completely buried under the flat land and perfectly preserved by the thick soil layers.

Barely any work has been done on the temple since its discovery. And this is mainly because of the stand taken by the residents of Malleswaram, whose protests are what stopped the builder from going ahead with his plans.

One thing that is unique about this temple, as the name

suggests, is the direction in which both statues are facing – south (dakshin), usually temples in India face eastwards, and that a south-facing temple was almost unheard of until now. The temple houses a Shivalinga continuously bathed with water dripping from the mouth of a stone

Nandi statue. When ASI cleaned the mouth of Nandi, what they found was a small stream of water started pouring out continuously. And when the land was cleared at the bottom, they discovered that the water fell on the Shiva linga and joined the Kalyani in the middle of the temple

complex. The source of the continuous stream of water from the Nandi’s mouth is unknown. It has been hypothesised that water flows from the Sankey Tank here but has not been proved thereby remaining mysterious.

Credit to respective sources.
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