Sri Anantha Padmanabha Swamy or Ananthagiri Temple is a Hindu temple located in Ananthagiri,

Vikarabad district Vikarabad district is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. Vikarabad is the headquarters of the district. The district shares boundaries with Sangareddy, Mahabubnagar, Narayanpet, and Ranga Reddy districts and the state boundary of ...

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. It is temple of

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. The temple is about 75 km from

Gachibowli Gachibowli is a neighbourhood in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, located in the Serilingampally mandal of the Ranga Reddy district. It is situated about 5 km away from HITEC City, another IT hub. Gachibowli is home to numerous tech companies ...

, Hyderabad.

History

According to

Skanda Purana The ''Skanda Purana'' ( IAST: Skanda Purāṇa) is the largest '' Mukhyapurāṇa'', a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts. The text contains over 81,000 verses, and is of Shaivite literature, titled after Skanda, a son of Shiva and Parv ...

it is believed the temple is installed by the Rishi

Markandeya Markandeya () is a rishi (sage) featured in Hindu literature. He is the son of the sage Mrikanda and his wife, Manasvini. The Markandeya Purana (one of the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas in Hinduism), attributed to the sage, comprises a dialogue ...

Dvapara Yuga ''Dvapara Yuga'' (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: ''Dvāpara-yuga'') (Devanagari: द्वापर युग), in Hinduism, is the third and third-best of the four ''yugas'' (world ages) in a ''Yuga Cycle'', preceded b ...

. Attracted by peaceful atmosphere of

Ananthagiri hills Ananthagiri Hills is located in Vikarabad district, Telangana, India. The water flows from these hills to Osman Sagar, also known as Gandipet lake, and Himayathsagar. It is one of the dense forests in Telangana. Ananthagiri Temple is loca ...

Markhandeya Rishi came here for yoga sadhana. Every day Markandeya used to go to Kasi from Ananthagiri to take a holy bath in the Ganges through a cave due to his yoga sadhana. On one day he was not able to go to Kasi as Dwadasi enter the early hours of the morning. Lord gave

Darshana In Indian religions, a ''darshan'' (Sanskrit: दर्शन, ; 'showing, appearance, view, sight') or ''darshanam'' is the auspicious sight of a deity or a holy person. The term also refers to any one of the six traditional schools of Hind ...

in dream and arranged the Ganges to flow to perform a holy bath for Rishi. Rajarshi

Muchukunda Muchukunda () is a king of the Suryavamsha (Solar dynasty) in Hindu mythology. He was the son of King Mandhata, and the brother of Ambarisha. Battle with the asuras According to the Bhagavata Purana, the devas were once defeated by the asur ...

after fighting for years with

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and killing mleccha

Kalayavana Kalayavana () is a king in Hinduism. He is stated to have invaded Mathura with an army of 30 million '' Yavanas'' against Lord Krishna. Legend The '' Brahmanda Purana'' 14.46 narrates the following story of Kalayavana's birth, a woman named V ...

came to Ananthagiri to take rest and went into deep sleep, He got a boon from devandra that who ever spoils the sleep of his can be killed by burning to ashes. he hills and the cave where Muchukunda rested is also located to Mount Girnar in the state of Gujarat Kalayavana rakshsa took control of Dwaraka and followed Lord Krishna and Balarama to Ananthagiri and spoil the sleep of Muchikunda and was killed. Lord Krishna gave darshana in the form of Sri Anantha Padmanabha Swamy to Muchikunda and blessed him to take a permanent place in the world in the form of river. Musi River that originates in these hills, a tributary of

Krishna River The Krishna River in the Deccan Plateau, Deccan plateau is the third-longest in India, after the Ganga, Ganga and Godavari. It is also the fourth-largest in terms of water inflows and river basin area in India, after the Ganga, Indus and Godav ...

in the Deccan Plateau region of Telangana that passes through city of Hyderabad is also referred to as Muchukunda River. Sri Anantha Padmanaba Swamy also gave darshana to markandeya and converted into a charka to swamy. About 400 years ago

Nizam Nizam of Hyderabad was the title of the ruler of Hyderabad State ( part of the Indian state of Telangana, and the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka). ''Nizam'' is a shortened form of (; ), and was the title bestowed upon Asaf Jah I ...

Nawabs used to come here for hunting and to take rest in the peaceful place of Ananthagiri hills, one day lord Sri Anantha Padmanabha Swamy came to

dreams and asked him to build the temple for him. The main temple of the lord is constructed by Hyderabad Nawab

Mir Osman Ali Khan Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII (5 or 6 April 1886 – 24 February 1967) was the last Nizam (ruler) of Hyderabad State, the largest state in the erstwhile Indian Empire. He ascended the throne on 29 August 1911, at the age of 25 and rule ...

The 7th Nizam also gave a cash grant of Rs. 20,495 for the repairs of the Anantgiri Balaji Temple.

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