ANANTHA PADMANANABHA SWAMY

Country               : India

State                    : Kerala

Location              : Thiruvanthapuram

Origin                  : Kasaragod

Culture Sanctum : Vishnu

                                                      

Architectural styles : fusion of Kerala Architecture and Dravidian architecture.

Kasaragod Ananthapura temple

"Padmanabhaswamy temple" is located in Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala, India. The temple is built in an intricate of the indigenous Kerala style and the Dravidian style (kovil) of architecture associated with the temples located in the neighboring state of Tamilnadu, featuring high walls, and a 16th century Gopuram. While the Moolasthanam of the temple is Anantha Puram temple in Kasargod, This is the only lake temple in Kerala and is believed to be the original seat (Moolasthanam) of Ananthapadmanabha Swami . architecturally to some extent, the temple is replica of the Adikesava perumal temple located in kanyakumari distrit.

Anantha Padmanabha templeThiruvananthapuram

              several extant Hindu texts like the "Bradhama purna " "Matsya purana" "Varaha purana" "Skanada purna" "Vayu purana" "Bhagavata" "purna" and the Mahabharata mention this shrine. According to the Bhagavata lord Balarama visted Phalgunam more commonly known as Thiruvananthapuram, took both in Padmateertham and made a gift of ten thousand cow to holy men.         Though the sannidhyam of lard Padmanabha has always bee present in the holy land of Thiruvanthapuram making it a pilgrim spot even during the time of Balarama, the temple has been lord come up much later.The temple has been referred to in the sangam period of literature between 500B.c and 300A.D several times. The city of lord Ananta, referring to the denity of

"Padmanabhasway temple".                                 

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