{"id":27653,"date":"2024-10-30T01:57:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T20:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27653"},"modified":"2025-04-08T11:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T05:48:23","slug":"simhachalam-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/simhachalam-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Simhachalam Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Simhachalam Temple:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Simhachalam Temple, originally known as <strong>Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Temple<\/strong>, is a Hindu temple located in <strong>Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is dedicated to the <strong>incarnation (avatar) of Vishnu<\/strong> known as <strong>Narasimha<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(the man-lion).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>History<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It was <strong>constructed<\/strong> in the <strong>11th century<\/strong> by the <strong>Gajapati rulers of Odisha<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kulottunga Chola I of Tamilnadu<\/strong>, <strong>made endowments<\/strong> to this temple, as evidenced from inscriptions dating back to the year 1087.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Vengi Chalukyas of Andhra Pradesh<\/strong> renovated the original shrine in the 11th century.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Much of the structure<\/strong> as it stands today is the <strong>result of renovation by Narasimha I, of the Eastern Ganga dynasty<\/strong> in the second quarter of the 13th century CE.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Krishna Deva Raya,<\/strong> the Vijayanagar monarch, <strong>visited this temple<\/strong> in the year 1516, as seen from inscriptions here.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Architecture:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The temple\u2019s architecture is a <strong>blend of Kalinga and Dravidian styles<\/strong>, with its main sanctum adorned with intricate carvings and sculptures.<\/li>\n<li>The presiding deity, Lord Narasimha, is depicted with a human torso and a lion\u2019s face, exuding a sense of divine power and grace.<\/li>\n<li>It boasts of a beautiful <strong>stone chariot drawn by horses.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Kalyana Mandapa<\/strong> within the temple has <strong>16 pillars with bas reliefs<\/strong> depicting the incarnations of Vishnu.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The outer walls of the sanctum depict images of a royal personality (said to be King Narasimha) in various postures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: Who was Krishnadevaraya?<\/h3>\n<p>The greatest emperor in the Vijayanagar empire\u2019s history was Krishnadevaraya(17 January 1471-17 October 1529). He presided over the Tuluva Dynasty as its third king. By overthrowing the sultans of Bijapur, Golconda, the Bahmani Sultanate, and the Gajapatis of Odisha, he rose to power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/southern-states\/andhra-pradesh\/ancient-telugu-inscription-discovered-at-simhachalam-temple-1834227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ancient Telugu inscription discovered at Simhachalam temple<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simhachalam Temple, originally known as Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, is a Hindu temple located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}