Paathal as name suggest temple is slightly below the land level... It takes few meters walk in sand to reach this temple, this is 2nd of the 5 temples you get to see on the long walk in sand.. these temples have great historic value and gives out such positive vibes.. the whole point that you walk in sand for few meters makes the temple amplify it's value .. you feel great after darshana that all the walk you took was worth... ** You won't get food on the way ** Water stall one or two may be available ** It takes at least a km to walk in sand ** It's not easy to walk in sand ** there is a shed on top which at least allows you to walk in shade. ** No washrooms on the way

One of the oldest temples constructed by the Ganga kings in Talakadu, Pathaleshwara Temple has some uniqueness to it and one of the five lingams in the town. The Shiva lingam installed in the temple changes its hue with a different time of day. The Lingam is red in the morning, black in the afternoon and white at night, adding a mysterious touch to this ancient temple.

Beautiful temple in Talakaadu!! Incredible architecture makes it a must visit place in Talakaadu

Very old Hindu Temple of Shiva. Pathaleshwara Temple is another popular pilgrimage site in Talakad. It is considered to be one amongst the earliest temples constructed by Ganga kings in this town. The prime attraction of Pathaleshwara Temple is its Shivalingam, which changes colour at different points of the day.

This temple was buit in 1117AD during the chola dynasty. It is situated in Talakadu, Karnataka. A very nice place for a one day trip. It is around 150 km from bangalore. I booked a cab from Utaxi who took 3000/- from Bangalore for a Tata Indica AC car. The trip included Talakadu temple, kaveri river bank, Shivanasamudram falls and temple. Overall it was a nice experience. You can take a guide in the talakadu temple who will take 200/- and explain you all the details. There are 5 temples in the area. Most of the people don't realise it and end up seeing just one. Best time to visit -- During July-August if you want to enjoy the beauty of shivanasamudram waterfall. Total cost -- Around 3500 if you book a cab, and 2000 if you drive your own vehicle. Lunch -- near kaveri river (cost - 50-60 per person)

Nice ancient temple. Located on the trail which is now well covered and it's easy to find your way through the temples of Panchalingeshwar.

Beautiful ancient temple and best example of stone carving. Already showing temple Google map was incorrect and tourist get confused. I corrected map address suggested Google to change it. But most of the tourist posted pictures are wrong. Need to re edit pictures and Google map so tourist will get exactly information same as per Google map.

After walking from Sri Vaidyanatheshwara temple, we arrive at this ancient and self manifested Shivalinga temple. This is part of Pancha (5) Lingas. Main temple is quite below adjacent ground level and hence a boundary has been built to prevent sand collection around the temple during rainy season. But temple priest expressed that this boundary wall is unable to prevent any sand coming inside and hence this accumulated sand needs to be removed manually almost on a regular basis.

Its a Ancient Shiva temple has a history behind. Its a good architectural place. Lots of gods figers carved on temple. People says the temple was under the sand before so that people comes to the see it.

The best part of the approach is the roofed sand walkway from the beach, and you plod slowly along the green line shown in the map. When I first saw this almost fifty years ago, the excavation was incomplete. Thirty years ago we were able to enter the tempe. Now the temple is fortified well. The temple is well maintained, but we stayed only a few minutes.

People should walk through the sand dunes to visit temple its covered all round by sand, Pathaleshwara is an ancient temple. Devotees and Tourists visiting Talakaadu worship all the 3 shiva temples. River kaveri flows towards Shivanasamudra from here people from Mysore, Mandya, Bengaluru Ramnagar and Neighbouring districts visit this Historical Religious and Legendary Place. Pancha Linga utsava was held this year from 10/12/2020 to 20/12/2020.

Excellent construction and well maintained y archeological dept. It's a very good to explain our Indian culture and our sanaathana dharma. Wonderful place to visit. But to take a long walk. For elders and children, it's a bit difficult. No wheelchair. Parking is good. No proper toilets. Could be maintained the surroundings better. 3 food outlets are available for urgent need. Cool drinks and hot drinks are available in pretty shops.

it's one beautiful shiva temple in down from ground level

You get to walk in sand for this temple which is down from the road and submerged with sand. An ancient temple with good belief, do worship. Get a good feeling when you see it. Before entering you have 5 lingas as panchaligeshwara. The bad thing about this is everytime time you visit the near by temples the people try to sell their items forcibly as if you be cursed if you do not buy.

A place with 5 temples. Beautiful and attractive idol of keerthinarayana swami. A historical place. Must visit. Non crowdy and peaceful place to visit. A small story is behind the area which to be known before visit or after. Big idol of sivalinga was awesome and attractive. Loved the place. Place name talakadu.

Cool weather

Good place to visit

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Surroundings of temple is filled with sand

Old Hindu Temple , good place to visit

(Translated by Google) The Panchalinga Temples and the Vishnu Temple here are great but the bustling of the plastics and the inside of the temple's distribution centers .... The situation is such that we need to help the deity by asking the vendors to replace the serenity. (Original) ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುವ ಪಂಚಲಿಂಗ ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನಗಳು ಹಾಗೂ ವಿಷ್ಣು ದೇವಾಲಯ ಅದ್ಭುತವಾಗಿದೆ ಆದರೆ ಪ್ಲಾಸ್ಟಿಕ್ ಹಾಗೂ ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನದ ಒಳಗಿನ ಪ್ರಸಾದ ವಿತರಣೆಯ ಮಾರಾಟ ಕೇಂದ್ರಗಳ ಗದ್ದಲವೇ ಜಾಸ್ತಿ ....ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಶಾಂತತೆ ಬದಲಾಗಿ ಮಾರಾಟಗಾರರ ಗದ್ದಲವನ್ನು ಕೇಳುತ್ತಾ ನಾವು ದೇವರಿಗೆ ಕೈಮುಗಿ ಬೇಕಾದಂತಹ ದುಸ್ಥಿತಿ ಇದೆ ...ಈ ಸ್ಥಿತಿಯನ್ನು ಬದಲಾಯಿಸಿ.

A great place to visit and experience the ancient architecture

The Pataleshwara Shivalingam is one of the 5 panchalingas and is said to change colors during the day (red in the morning, black in afternoon and white in the evening).

This is a dynasty of talakadu ganga's also Hindu temple

Nice place but over crowded And commercialised

Nice

Good place

The first temple you see on your trip to talakadu. I'll try adding all of them its 5 to 6 in total if I'm right. It's beautiful and good place to visit. The place is decent and historical and the government is doing well in looking after it. You'll find parking, hotels, shops to buy trinkets.

First temple on sand footpath after Shri Vaidyanatheshwara and Shri Veerbhadra temple.

Temple is good but no cleanliness maintained.Sad to see plastic bottles and food wrapper lying around.

Talakadu is one of the beautiful place in karnataka

Wow, nice place to visit N hangout with family and friends. Nature view is an ideal for photography lovers.... lovely architecture to study by architects. Temples are beautiful too for religious persons. doggies are friendly....

Beautiful temple. Must visit if you come to Talakadu.

Very nice place. It has a historical background of centuries. But bit tiring to walk over all the temples in sand. Walk path has a shelter and provides a good protection from sun and heat. It once had 30 temples and most of them are not covered under sand.

Sri Pathaleshwara Temple, is located at Talakadu, Karnataka at a distance of 130 kms from Bangalore & 50 Kms from Mysore. Talakadu (or Talakad) is a historic site, near Mysore, on the banks of the River Kaveri. It was once a flourishing town, which saw the rise and fall of several kingdoms. But today, much of Talakadu is buried under the sand. It is a scenic pilgrimage centre where one can visit ancient temples. More than 30 temples are buried in sand. Talakadu Panchalinga Darshana comes around once every twelve years. The temples worshipped on the day are, Sri Vaideshwara, Sri Maruleshwara, Sri Mallikarjuna , Sri Arakeshwara and Sri Pathaleshwara. As per the legend two brothers – Tala and Kadu. found a tree being worshipped by elephants, which they then cut down. And they discovered the tree was bleeding. Then, a voice ordered them to heal it using its leaves. After the tree was restored, the blood turned into milk, which the brothers drank and attained moksha. Later, the town was named Talakadu after those two brothers. Apart from the legend about Talakadu Temples history, another popular one is about the curse which buried Talakadu under the sand. As per the local folklore, Wodeyar rulers (of Mysore) took over the region after the death of the king. Also, he was after the jewels belonging to the queen (Queen Alamelamma). But she fled. And when she found she couldn't escape, she drowned herself in River Kaveri. But before jumping into the river, she uttered a three-fold curse – “Talakadu Maralagi, Malangi Maduvagi, Mysooru Arasarige Makkalagadirali.” It translates to – “Let Talakadu become sand, let Malangi become a whirlpool, let the Mysore Rajas fail to beget heirs.” And Talakadu, the once prosperous town, is now buried in mounds of sand, several metres deep. As per the legends, 30 temples are buried in the mounds of sand. And it is believed that most temples were built by the kings of Vijayanagar kingdom. The Hoysalas, Cholas and others too contributed and added many features to the existing temples. However, only a few temples have been excavated. Revered among those are the five Shiva temples – Pataleshwara, Maraleshwara, Arkeshwara, Mallikarjuna and Vaidhyanatheshwara. The Keerthinarayana Temple is also a popular temple of Talakadu. Pathaleshwara Temple is a cave temple carved in the Rashtrkutas period. It is cut stone temple dedicated to Lord Shiva. A unique shiviling is installed in the cave temple. It is considered to be one amongst the earliest temples constructed by Ganga kings in this town. The prime attraction of Pathaleshwara Temple is its Shivalingam, which changes colour at different points of the day. The Shivalingam is red in colour during the morning but changes to black in the afternoon and white at night. The way to temple goes downside for witnessing the main Shiva cave temple. Must have darshan.

1600 years old Shiva Temple and Vishnu temple, must visit to take blessings and experience the marvel of 1600 years old sculpture and architecture. Nayakan was my Guide explained everything in detail

Historic and religious place.to reach here, a path with sun roof is built. Rest is available near vaidhyanatha temple. Take 30 from vaidhyanatha temple. And 10 mins from talakadu pinic cauvery basin (not a suggested plath). Continue from here for maruleshwara temple

Devine.

Worth the visit

Very ancient made with stone

Very good place for all types of people to visit

Wandarfupl timpal but not available avareday puja

(Translated by Google) Shivanna Nanjundappa Kadilapura Rice Rampur Poo Karatagare Taluk Tumkur District Development Studies Section Introduction to the Intellectual Property Survey on the Knowledge of the Cultivation of Medicinal Plants and Heritage The routine of calling a meeting (Original) ಶಿವಣ್ಣ ನಂಜುಂಡಪ್ಪ ಕಾದಿಲಾಪುರ ಅಕ್ಕಿ ರಾಂಪುರ ಪೂ ಕೊರಟಗೆರೆ ತಾಲ್ಲೂಕು ತುಮಕೂರು ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ವಿಭಾಗ ಔಷಧೀಯ ಸಸ್ಯಗಳ ಕೃಷಿ ವಿಧಾನ ಮತ್ತು ಜೀವನ ಚರಿತ್ರೆ ಪರಂಪರೆಯ ಜ್ಞಾನದ ಮೇಲೆ ಬೌದ್ಧಿಕ ಆಸ್ತಿ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರಿಗೆ ಏನಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ ಅಂತ ಊರೆಲ್ಲ ಅಂದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದರೆ ನಮ್ಮ ದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಇನ್ನೂ ಕೆಲವು ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಸಿದ್ಧಪಡಿಸಿ ಪ್ರತಿ ವರ್ಷವೂ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಜನಪದ ಆಚರಣೆಗಳು ಇಂದಿಗೂ ಸಹ ಈ ಗುಂಪಿಗೆ ಸೇರಿದ ವಾರ್ಷಿಕ ಸರಾಸರಿ ವಾರ್ಷಿಕ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಸಭೆಯನ್ನು ಕರೆಯುವ ವಾಡಿಕೆ

Walk through the sand to Visit 5 Shiva temples

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Talakadu it's nice place, beautiful nature, temples and Kaveri river

Calm place to visit...

Good

It's good and it will raise a flag on Indian history and our culture

Nice place

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Temple surrounded by sandy areas.

Historical place. The temple is surrounded by sand. Visit the place and listen about the mystery of this sand. Also visit bank of cauvery which looks like sea beach in this area for to heavy sand

This pice is Keerthinarayana temple not a Pathaleshwara temple

Beautiful Temple, Lord shivas Lingam looks very amazing and powerful , temple is very old and well maintained. Must visit when you are in talakadu.