Rajamundary
Temple Name : Koti Lingeswar temple
Devi : Vishwesi / Rahini
Bhairava : Dhandapani / Vatsanaba
Organ: Left Cheek
Sanskrit letter: ‘Roo’
How to reach –
Rajamundary is one of the important city in east godavari district of andhra. 45 Kms from Kakinada. It is well connected by train, road. We can take a auto from railway station to this kotilingeswar temple.
About the place -
According to the text, devi’s left cheek falls in godavari bank named sharvasa. As the real fact, no body can spot the exact place where it falls. But approximately, we can define this place to be. The whole godavari bank can consider as shakthi peet , we already see the orgin place of Godavari which is another shakthi peet(Brahmagiri). So we can come to a conclusion that the godavari bank footsteps to be sakthi peet. There is one ancient footsteps built on the banks of Godavari is Rajamundary.
This river bank foot steps said to be build by Rajaraja narendhra of east Chalukyas in 1022 b.c., there are still remainings of forts and palaces in rajamundary. This place is also refered as rajamahendrapuram then it termed as rajamundary.
According to a legend, king lndra was cursed by sage Gautama. To relieve himself of the curse he installed a Sivalinga and anointed it with water from one crore rivers. Hence this temple earned its name as Kotilingeswara temple. There is a saying that there are one crore lingas buried in this land. There is a seperate shrine for rajarajeswari. From her name the city earned its name. The temple is constructed in dravidian style and the main shrine is for kotilingeswara which is shvayambu and there is a shrine left to it for rajarajeswari and right of it there is a vishnu shrine.
There are lot of temples in rajamundary city and there are many ghats here, named after tirupati hills name – shesa ghat, pusha ghat, padma ghat, ram ghat, anandha ghat, rama pada ghat. As like in nasik, here also there is a big khumbha mela for every 12 years in this godavari bank. They named it as pushkaram.
It is said to be a lot of rishis , yogis , sadhus lived in this godavari bank, so taking dip in this holy water is said to be get rid of evil things.
There is another temple,Draksharamam in godavari bank which can consider as a shakthi peet for the organ left cheek.
