History

Kanchi Kamakshi Charitra

From – The Essence of Brahmandapurana – Compiled and translated by Sri VDN Rao It may be recalled that Agastya Maharshi visited Kanchinagara to worship Devi Kamakshi and Vishnu made his ‘darshan’in the Swarupa of Hayagriva to delineate Lalitopakhyana. Now, Hayagriva confirmed that Lalita Devi whom Sarasvati-Lakshmi-and Gauri worshipped had reappeared as Kamakshi:  Adyayaanutara saa […]

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Kanchi -The Kamakotipuri

Kanchi, popularly known as Kanchipuram, and styled as Kacchi in Tamil classical literature, is a city of celebrity according to Bharavi, the poet ‘Nagareshu Kanchi’. This city has been listed as one among the seven sacred cities of liberation (mokshapuris). Kanchi is the only mokshapuri in peninsular India, the other six-Ayodha(Uttar Pradesh), Mathura(Uttar Pradesh), Maya […]

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