Shringeri Sharadamba Temple

Sri Sharadamba Temple is a famous Hindu temple dedicated to goddess Saraswati inside the holy city of Sringeri in Karnataka, India. The Sharadamba Temple at Sringeri is an eighth-century temple, founded by way of Sri Adi Shankaracharya. It housed a sandalwood statue of Shardamba in a standing posture, which changed into set up through Adi Shankarachaya till the Vijayanagara rulers and Sri Vidyaranya installed a seated gold statue of Sri Shardamba inside the 14th century. Sankara is thought to have expected this place because the holiest wherein a snake hooded as an umbrella to protect a pregnant frog from hot Sun at some point of its labour.

To commemorate this incident, a sculpture called KAPPE SHANKARA is there at the footsteps to the river Tunga. This was the primary vicinity wherein Sankara is believed to have set up one of the four principal mutts. As according to Hindu legend, the location is related to sage Rishyasringa, son of Vibhandakamuni. He did severe penance at this area, leading to the name Sringeri. The temple turned into renovated throughout the regime of Vijayanagara Empire in the course of the 14-16th centuries and later all through 1916. You can come here and explore this place.