TALAKAD -LORD SHIVA TEMPLE

TALAKAD -LORD SHIVA TEMPLE
Miracle..
Talakad or Talakadu is a popular picnic spot and pilgrimage
center. Once upon a time Talakadu was the capital of the Ganga
dynasty.
This place is a miracle. Covered with sand dunes at the banks of
river Cauvery in the middle of agricultural land. Talakadu was
ruled by various kingdoms like the Gangas, Cholas, Hoysala,
Vijaynagar and lastly the Wodeyars of Mysore.
The panchalinga temples of lord Shiva are a great attraction. The
5 temples are Pathaleshwara, Maruleshwara, Arkeshwara,
Vaidyanathee-shwara and Mallikarjuna temples. A special festival
called Panchalinga Darshana takes place every 12 years.
1600s, when Raja Wodeyar defeated Rangaraya, the Vijayanagar
empire’s viceroy in Srirangapatna.
The victorious king alleged that Rangaraya’s wife, Alamelamma,
still had with her jewels that rightly belonged to the temple at
Srirangapatna. Eventually, when Raja Wodeyar sent soldiers to
recover the jewels, Alamelamma fled to Talakad and famously
cursed the king and the town before drowning herself in the
Cauvery near Malingi a town on the opposite bank of the river.
“Let Talakad be filled with sand,” she is said to have cried, “Let
the Mysore kings remain childless. Let the river at Malingi become
a whirlpool.”
In an extraordinary turn of events, beginning in the 1600s,
Talakad did indeed begin to be deluged with sand. This
concurrence with the curse has never failed to capture the
imagination of visitors to the besieged town, where today, some
30-odd temples are said to lie buried under the sand. In recent
years, this remarkable coincidence has also intrigued scholars,
resulting in some fresh insight into this mystery.
3 points before jumping to river Cauvery. The curse are as
follows:
1. May Malangi turn into an unfathomed whirlpool
2. May Talakad turn into a barren expanse of sand
3. May the Rajas of Mysore not have children for all time to
eternity!
OM NAMAH SHIVAYA