Panakala Lakshmi Narasimha Swami Temple, Mangalagiri

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Panakala Lakshmi Narasimha Swami Temple

Mangalagiri, Andhra Pradesh



Panakala Lakshmi Narasimha Swami Temple is a cave temple and this is situated on the Mangalagiri. Mangalagiri is one of the Ashta swayamvyaktha Kshetram of Maha Vishnu. Mangala Giri hills have three temples.


They are Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple, Panakala Narasimha Swamy, Gandala Narasimha swamy. In the Panakala Narasimha Swamy temple, we cannot see the Vigraham of Narasimha but mouth which opened wide. Here we can offer Panakam( jaggery water ) to Swamy.


We can observe a gurgling sound while pouring this jaggery water into the mouth of Swamy.This will happen every time the we pour the jaggery water.There are no traces of ant forming near Swamy or near Panakam.It is said that Vishnu has told Devas that offering Panakam will cool down his anger after killing demon Namuchi, which was in Krithayugam. Bhagwan said that he would be satisfied with ghee in Threthayugam, with milk in Dwaparayugam and with panakam(Jaggery water) in Kaliyugam. 


Om Namo Narayanaya














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