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It has been a little more than a month since we got our Indica and we had not been on a drive for more than 50 Kms. So we decided to go to Chennapatna…..

I found a blog which is beautifully describing this town http://romasharma.com/2009/07/chennapatna-toy-factory/

 We were told that there is a temple of lord Aprameya and his consort Anandavalli Thayar. The temple also has a shrine for ambegal Krishna, i.e crawling baby Krishna (thavazhum Krishna).
Details of the temple can be found on their official webste at http://doddamallurtemple.net/

 We knew that it would take us atleast an hour to reach the other end of Bangalore itself…..that too if we leave early in the morning. Once the traffic kicks in….we cannot just say how long it would take.

On a nice Saturday morning, we started at 7:30AM. We had packed tomato rice for breakfast….of course hubby had one round of Dosa before leaving ….

 We decided to take the nice road…..we got onto the nice road in the middle of Bannerghatta road. Nice drive. Looked like roads in US (of course the feel was a little bumpy….but that’s ok). Except for the state transport lorries…the road really looked good. We also stopped at a place to take some Pics.
We were speeding at 100 Kms/hr and it really dint feel so….the feel was so good that we missed the exit to the mysore state highway….we were heading to Tumkur. We had to go so far…pay toll twice….and come back to get onto the mysore road.

 Because of this delay…we had not yet stopped for breakfast…. Finally when we were onto the mysore road we stopped and ate our tomato rice…
Next was a short search for easing nature’s calls…..Thanks to Indian oil petrol bunk which had a decent enough place and also had huge sign boards indicating that they had toilets.

 Next we drove directly to dodda mallur.
It was on the main road itself. We crossed the chennapatna main bus stop, police station and all that….then came a bridge…after that on our left side was an arch indicating a temple complex. We turned into it and there the temple was….it was 10:30AM …

 Lot of hawkers selling flowers etc etc….forcing us to buy stuff.I bought one tulsi garland and some stuff for the archnai.

Once we entered the temple…we were told that the butter decoration (benne alankara) was happening for lord Krishna and we had to wait for an hour and half. So…first we visited the Aprameya shrine and then the anandavalli thayar. Then we sat in front of Krishna’s Shrine waiting for it to open. They opened up after about 20 minutes.
They started distribution of Archana tickets for 4 Rs each. We got it.

 We were told to sit down again. There was going to be abhishekam and then…people who had got small silver cradles with Krishna in it could give it and they would be placed in the shrine. Some people also had the thulabaram to be done…..this is a ritual where…one can donate anything…like rice…sugar or gold ….on an equal weight of their child or themselves.
There would be a huge balance arranged. The people would place their child on one side of the balance for weighing. On the other side they are ideally supposed to put in the item that they plan to donate so that the weight of the child equals the item of donation.

 Of course…in tis temple… they weighed the child using weights and then maybe they would just donate the money for purchasing equal amounts of rice.
All this was over by 12:30PM

We waited for all this to finish….then came our turn for the archanai…we did this. Then we again waited for the sastrigal (poojari…or the person responsible for performing the offering to God) to take our garland and the other suff that I had purchased.

After all this was over…they served prasadam….it was almost lunch being served on the leaves. As hubby could not sit down for the lunch we left and decided to have our food somewhere else.
We had also planned to visit a hanuman temple which was supposed to be in the same vicinity called the hanumatharaya gudi. But since it was almost 1:00PM when we left…we were quiet sure that the temple would closed. So we headed towards Bangalore.

 We stopped at Kamath hotel for lunch on the way back….hybby had one nice round of the Karnataka meals with joladha rotti …I had some curd rice fruit salad and fruit juice.
We were right next to the Janapadha loka…the world of folklore. We paid an entrance fee of Rs 10 each and went in. there are some museum displays of stuff that was used in olden days by the folklore staying in Karnataka….

What was more impressive was the greenery….nice space for picnic…a lake…geese in it…small olden temple in the midst of trees….i loved it.
We took a few pics and drove right back to Bangalore…

 A nice time off after a long time…..

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