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K Siva Reddy is a Telugu poet from India who won Sahitya Akademi Award [1] in Telugu, 1996 for his Poetry work Mohana-O-Mohana [2] and was awarded the Saraswati Samman in 2018 for his poetry collection Pakkaki Ottigilite.
The Śiva·sūtras, technically akṣara·samāmnāya, variously called māheśvarāṇi sūtrāṇi, pratyāhāra·sūtrāṇi, varṇa·samāmnāya, etc., refer to a set of fourteen aphorisms devised as an arrangement of the sounds of Sanskrit for the purposes of grammatical exposition as carried out by the grammarian Pāṇini in the Aṣṭādhyāyī.
Kotilingala is a Hindu pilgrimage site in Jagtial district of the Indian state of Telangana.It is situated in Velagatoor mandal of the district, on the Godavari River. [1] It is located on the bank of the Godavari River, and has a traditional Shiva temple for Hindus, the Koteshwara Siddeshwara Temple.
The Pancharama Kshetras (Telugu: పంచారామలు, romanized: Pañcārāmalu) or the Pancharamas, are a group of five ancient Hindu temples dedicated to Lord Siva, located in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. These temples are situated at Draksharamam, Samalkota, Amaravathi, Palakollu, and Bhimavaram.
Rudra's identification with Shiva was put in writing for the first time in Shvetashvatara Upanishad and later in Yajurveda linked Taittiriya Samhita (S.4.5.1), in the Shata Rudriya section. The Vajasneya samhita (S. 3.63) also co-equals Shiva with Rudra by citing the mantra, “ tam Shiva namasi”, meaning “I bow to you, Shiva”.
Slowly she became a great devotee of Lord Shiva and started spending most of her time offering prayers to Lord Shiva at the Old Koteswara Temple located on Rudra hill. Eventually, she lost all interest in her materialistic life and started penance for Sri Koteswara Swamy.
According to a Hindu chronicle, Lord Shiva descended as linga on three mountains which marked the boundaries of the Telugu country, namely Kaleshwaram in Telangana, Srisailam in Rayalaseema and Bhimeswaram, also known as Draksharamam, in Coastal Andhra. It was also believed that the word Telangana derived from Telingana, Telinga, Trilinga. [2]
The temple is dedicated to Shiva and the namesake is Veerabhadra. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The temple is one of the 'pancha Kasi kshetras' (five important peaceful places) mentioned in the Skaanda puranam , a collection of Hindu religious texts.