| There many prominent locations nearby the matha and Srila Gurudeva on visited a few of them on the recent tour. |
| Cave of Sri Vyasadeva Srila Vyasadeva’s cave is located about 1 km from our matha. Two giant boulders make this cave. Nearby there is an ancient Sri Siva temple built in stone. |
| Bhima’s footprints These footprints are about 2 km from the matha. Sri Bhima, the strongest among all the Pandavas, fought with Kicaka, the maternal uncle of Srimati Uttara-devi, the mother of Sri Pariksit Maharaja, when the Pandavas were in agyata-vasa hidden exile. Many of his footprints are present even today. His footprints were marked on the rocks as he fought with Kicaka. |
| Sri Sri Laksmi Nrsimhadeva Temple Sri Durvasa rsi established the deity of Sri Sri Laksmi Nrsimhadeva in the town of Heserghatta. The deity is carved out of a salagrama-sila. Sri Vyasa Tirtha, the guru of Sri Laksmipati Tirtha, and the parama-guru of Sri Madhavendra Puripada visited this temple of Sri Sri Laksmi Nrsimhadeva. In addition, Sri Ramanujacarya, the prominent Sri Vaisnava sampradaya acarya visited this temple. Srila Gurudeva also visited this temple to take the darsana of the Lord. Sri Vyasadeva compiled his literary works in front of the temple. |
| Sri Venu-gopala Temple and Panca-pandava Temple in Aivara-khanda-pura The Pandavas installed this beautiful deity of Sri Venu-gopala, Sri Krsna playing the flute. Sri Radhika and Sri Lalita (Sri Rukmini and Sri Satyabhama as per the Pujari) also surround the Lord. This temple is about four kms from the matha. This temple is located in the village named Aaivara-khanda-pura (in Kannada, the village where the five Pandavas were seen). Even today, there is a temple of five Siva lingas named as Dharmesvara, Bhimesvara, Arjunesvara, Nakulesvara, and so on in this village. There are many stone tablets with ancient inscriptions around the temple. There is also an old Deity of Sri Hanuman, which was installed by Sri Vyasa Tirtha. |
| Caturbhuja Krsna Temple at Kakola This four-armed Deity of Krsna was installed by about 2 kms from the matha by Sri Vyasa Tirtha. However due to the flood conditions of the Heserghatta river (which used to supply water to entire Bangalore even 8 years ago), this Deity was relocated in early part of the last century to the present location in Kakola, about 10 kms from our matha. |
Taj groups village resort known as Taj Kuteeram |
| Dance Village founded by Pratima Bedi |
| Heserghatta Lake |
| These ancient holy places are under the threat of destruction by the stone industry. Please send any financial and material help to us. |