This temple is situated on a small hillock beside the kempabudi lake, and the kempegowda tower, in GAVIPURA nearby the famous Gavi Gangadhara Temple.The temple is very old and belongs to and run be SWAKULASALI community along with SAHASRARJUNA KSATRIYA community for more than 300 years.The above peace loving community have been doing pooja since [...]

Sri Sri Pejavara Swamiji was hardly 25 when he took up the challenging task of building the Vidyapeetha at the then remote Kattriguppa in South-West Bangalore in 1956. Elders recall that both the Swamijis hanging Jolige (satchel) on their shoulders went from house to house in the downtown and extensions of old Bangalore to collect [...]