Thursday 22 October 2015

My trip to Lepakshi!

Hey guys! Today I had been to Lepakshi in Andhra Pradesh. I visited a temple there which had a story with a combination of mythology and history. It was a very interesting story. I heard the story from Viroopanna uncle who was one of the guides in Lepakshi.






Lepakshi is a 120 km drive from Bangalore. We took 3 hours to reach including our breakfast break. So.. let me tell you the stories of the temple. :)



This Virabhadra temple is built on a large tortoise shaped stone by the two brothers Viranna and Virupanna Nayaka. It is built in such a way that the temple wont collapse even after 500 years or more. This temple was dedicated to shiva, vishnu and virabhadra. It was built in the Vijayanagar period. The temple includes 7 rounds of mantapas like this..





Those days, the people used to travel to this temple by bullock carts and stay for 2 or 3 days in the temple itself. The 7 rounds of mantapas were built for the people who used to stay in the temple. The temple was actually 180 acres but now has reduced to 5 acres because the people who came to visit and stayed for a few days settled themselves and totally occupied 4 rounds of the mantapas. The Lepakshi Nandhi was in the 6th round of the temple. But now the Nandhi is out of the city.  Before there were pillars inside the house. The rich would have 50 to 60 pillars in their house. 
    There are hooks in the mantapas to hang the curtains in the night for privacy. They were hanging even the oil lamps which was needed.

 There were small pits on the ground which was used to grind spices for cooking like how we use mixer grinder these days.



This is the place where the marriage of shiva and parvathi which happened in kashi is depicted on the stones. They have shown the welcoming of the saptarushi and the V.I.Ps who had come to attend the marriage.
Before the humans were in giant size!.. so they used to eat in big plates like this..




Now the mythological touch!..In Ramayana, when Ravana and Jatayu is fighting in the sky, jatayu gets injured and falls down. Then sita comes and blesses the jatayu and tells to utter rama's name until he comes to save. She keeps one of her feet on the stone while blessing from where the water will start flowing from the sides. Jatayu had to drink the water coming from the sides of the impression of sita's foot to survive till rama comes to rescue.Then rama comes and tells "le pakshi" which means "rise bird". Hence it has been named Lepakshi. Now also there is water coming from the sides of the foot impression.     

                                                                   
This is the place where virabhadra threw his two eyes and the stain of the blood on the wall. The government has taken a blood sample of this and has proved it as real human blood!! Can't believe!

      
Once when the sculptors were done with their work and were waiting for their lunch to be prepared by their mom, they carved a 7 head snake within 1 hour which can be seen from the nandhi if you stand 5 feet away from it on the right side.


Now the miraculous thing!!.. the hanging pillar. There are 70 pillars in the 1st round of the temple. All the 69 pillars are linked to one hanging pillar in such a way that if the hanging pillar falls the entire building collapses.


When shiva wanted to marry parvathi, he came in a form of a beggar to parvathi's house and begged for some food. To test parvathi, shiva pulled her saree but she did not realize. Shiva gave parvathi a boon to marry shiva for her dedication towards any work she does. She was putting honey into shiva's plate so dedicatedly that she could not realize her saree was pulled.
These were some paintings which they did with natural colors and are not repainted. They used to crush the vegetables and leaves in the small pits for making natural colours.








This is the nandi which was in the sixth round of the temple but now is not included in the temple. We can see the 7 headed snake if we stand 5 feet away from the nandi on the right side.




Hope you enjoyed it.. :)


















Saturday 22 November 2014

MY 3 FAVORITE SINGERS.........

HEYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!

YOU KNOW WHAT?

My 3 top favorite singers from Bollywood and Hollywood are:

1. TAYLOR SWIFT
2. KATY PERRY
3. ARIJIT SINGH


OMG...........I LUVVVVVV TAYLOR SWIFT.....
she is THEE BEST. 
My favorite song which she sung,  is blank space:
So it's gonna be for ever
Or it's gonna go down in flames
You can tell me when it's over
If the high was worth the pain..........

I love the lyrics,the way she dances,the tune.........awesome!
when ever i listen to this song i get energized soooo much
The other songs that she sung was:
SHAKE IT OFF
LOVE STORY
22
RED
AND THE LIST GOEZZZ ONNNNN......





     SHE IS SOOOOOO DAMN PRETTY...
              I JUST LUV HER TO THE CORE.....










SOOO ,NEXT COMES KATY PERRY....
KATY PERRY is my second favorite singer....
i like her cozz she's cute and sings very very well

In katy's album the best song is ROARRRRR.....
She also sung:
DARK HORSE
THIS IS HOW WE DO
LAST FRIDAY NIGHT
BIRTHDAY
BUT THE BEST IS ROARRRR...

 I got the eye of the tiger,
a fighter,
dancing through the fire,
coz i am a champion ,
and you're gonna here me                                                                               
ROAR....
THIS IS IN ROAR

SHE'S NICE I LIKE HER.....
THIS IS IN DARK HORSE










                            

SHE LOOKS NICE IN DARK HORSE AND ROAR... 









ARIJIT SINGH IS MY THIRD FAVORITE SINGER....
I like him because of his voice....its sooo calm...
SAMJHAAWAN IS THE BEST SONG HE'S SUNG...
THE OTHER SONGS ARE:
MAST MAGAN
AARATH BHAR
KABHI JO BAADHAL
SAAWAN AAYA HAIN
RAABATA
TUM HI HO



I LUVVVV SAMJHAWAN ,ITS SOO CALM.........


plzzzzz,listen to my favorite songs........you'll fall in love wit them......



                                                                              






Tuesday 11 November 2014

Me & my DSLR

While i am waiting for my grass head to grow, i thought i should show you my clicks.. Handling the DSLR camera was not so difficult. But, i haven't learnt the manual modes.. Amma keeps telling about Shutter speed, Focal length, ISO, etc., I am yet to know those.

Here are the photos that i captured in the Program mode but without much knowledge on the technical things.

Heyyy.. by the way have you seen my movie? Adjust maadkobeda! yess this is the title. pl see the movie on this link & do share your views - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zVCGml8-1M

Help me with more story lines to create short.. very short movies


Saturday 8 November 2014

Grass Head



to to and to   and lots more to go....

Hello! Grass Head! we bought him yesterday. will post images of him growing green hair. I am quite excited about this!

Look at him! he is too cute with a wobbly eyes, round glasses, chubby face, ripe red nose & sturdy moustache!



 Heyyy.. Did you see that? Yes.. Mr. Grass Head is growing green hair!! yeyyyy! i am so excited. I will tell you what happens with him. His hair is nothing but grass! simply green grass. Mr. Grass Head came in the pack. I have added the pack's pictures. It costed Rs. 60. But the excitement he has brought in our family is priceless.

Thank you grass head

Once he grows lots of hair we could style him like this

I am waiting for him to grow this longgg hairs.

mmm.. that is styling tip the box suggests.

Instructions are available in 5 different language. I understood only in English :)

will post more pictures of Grass Head whenever he has something to showoff! Bye for now friends


Yaaayyy!!! Look at my Grass Head.. It is real! he has grown long green hair. And look at what me & my sis have done to him!

Did you see? he lost his nose! naughty Grass head. We told him not to play with girls! He was too cute & his nose was toooo cute, they simply plucked it out.

We like him so much.. ok, when he gets a new hair cut, will post his pictures. And ofcourse me & my sis will be his hair stylist!