Saturday, January 2, 2010

Ancient and Selfmanifested Lord Narsimha



  • Brief History:-
  • Narsimha idol found by king Bhimdev of Kundinyapur and was later installed by him in A.D.178.
  • "Yadusheth" the 6th predator of saint Namdev came from his original place 'Rile' & lived here for worshipping god upto his 4-5 generations & left the place before birth of saint Namdev in A.D.1124.
  • Temple(shrine) built up by Hemadri Pant by order of Ramdevray Yadav Devgiri A.D. 1273.
  • About this place mentioned in shree gurucharitra in 15th adhyaya .
  • Samartha Ramdas swami visited this place in A.D. 1662 & did prayer over here.
  • Land was gifted by Badshaha Adilshaha for lord narsimha temple in A.D.1726.
  • "Darshana" of selfmanifested idol of lord was given to sage Parasher, father of Vedvyas before Mahabharat period in A.D.5561.


*Additional Information:- At the same time idols of godess Koljai at kolegaon,Keshavraj at Tambve, Shree Pimplaidevi at Rethare,was found in deep water of krishna river and later all was installed.

Other spiritual places:-1. Machhindranath 2. Ramlinga & Maruti one among 11 maruti.(shenacha Maruti) Made up of cowdung by samarth shree Ramdas swami.
Lord Narsimhas Original place is Mul-sthan (Multan ) in pakistan. In india ancient and self manifested Narsimha place is at Kole Narsimhapur on the bank of holy river Krishna in Maharashtra ,India.

Surrounding:- There are wide  network of  ranges of mountains and subdivisions out of which  " shambhuMahadev"  is one of them .' Mhasobacha  dongar ' is the mountain originated from  central line of  shambhumahadev .
Machhindragad  fort  present  besides it. as far from the Machhindragad Krishna river  flows like a a half round  circle and tremendous 12 miles long  dam formed .
On eastern bank ,at the center of that circle  holy place  Narsimhapur (Narsingpur) village  lived since 1500 yrs.
Holy river Krishna  moves towards South direction , on the  southern part of village  shiv ling was installed by  Lord Rama so called Ramlinga; To avoid interruptions from Krishna water , in meditation  of lord Rama , Hanuman restricted the water with his arms (bahu);and krishna  river bifurcates here., the same concept was considered by Ramdas Swami & he installed idol of Hanuman, so called Bahe Maruti.

Here is also  a shrines of  holisages, shrine of Markandeya on pavangad , shrine of Muchhkunda  on vishalgad, shrine of Parasher on Panhalgad.

Keshavraj was found  with idol narsimha and was installed  at the west bank of rivrer  at Tambve  dist. sangli.; while idiol of godess Koljai  placed  on  north bank  of Krishnariver  at village Kole Gram . ,On the other hand Pimplai devi  idol was placed  at Rethre budrug. all   deities are worshipped  as a 'Gramdaivata '.