Muralidhar Godi Blog: 2010

Subramanya, the Snake God, also known as Shanmukha, located at Ghati, a Shree Kshetra, located around 60 km from Bangalore.
Started at around 8 AM in the morning with family. It was saturday and not much traffic. Went through Hebbal flyover -> Yelahanka Police station.
Then took left turn towards Doddaballapur. From Doddaballapur, it is around 14 kms. On the way to Hindupur, need to take right turn.
We can see the Arch. On the way to Ghati, just before around 6-7 km we were able to see Big Ganesh statue.
It is called Sri Kshetra Vrukshalaya, where Lord Ganesh and Subramany temple located.
We had darshan and moved towards Ghati. Reached at 10 AM. Parked the car easily as there was ample of car parking available.

Entered the temple around 10:30 AM in the queue. There was Abhishek and Mangalarathi at 11:30 AM and hence we need to start
for one hour in the queue as the queue movement got stopped. Around 11:30 AM, we had Darshan. It is very small yet very
beautiful idol. The front side is Snake God and back side is Sri Narasimha swamy(this will be viewed through mirror).
Completed the Darshan and had prasad around 12:15 PM.

There is daily "Anna Dasoha" (lunch in the afternoon) at 1 PM. We waited for almost 1 hour to have this.

After the lunch, visited the back side of the temple where "Pushkarani" and also lot of snake God deployed (Nagara Prathishte).

It is good to reach before 10 AM so that we can avoid long queue. After our lunch, we saw that there is big queue.
It will take about 3 hours to see the God.

We completed everything around 3:30 PM at Ghati and started towards Goravanahalli Mahalakshmi.

Reached Mahalakshmi temple at 5:00 PM and had comfortable Darshan.
We left Mahalakshmi temple at 6 PM and had some snacks at Dabaspet.
And then started to Bangalore. Had dinner in hotel in Bangalore and reached home at 10 PM and slept.

Below are some snapshots took by me.

Sri Kshetra Vrukshalaya (On the way to Ghati - around 6 kn before)