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The Sri Varahaswamy Temple, also called Bhu Varahaswamy Temple, is a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Varaha, situated at hill town of Tirumala in Tirupati, located in Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh state, India. The temple is situated on the northern premises of Venkateshvara Temple, Tirumala, on the north-west corner of Swami Pushkarini.
The temple has a five-tier rajagopuram (main tower) on the western gateway. [47] [48] Devotees enter the temple through a side door with a stairway, which leads into the Kalyana mandapa (wedding hall), [13] which has 96 pillars. [47] It has coloumns and walls on which the images of Vishnu, his consort Lakshmi and the Alvars are carved. [13]
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The principal deity of the temple is Varaha, the third avatar of Vishnu. This is one of the few temples in India where Lakshmi is depicted with Varaha. Only three temples of Varaha exist in Kerala. This temple in Thiruvananthapuram is believed to be more than 5000 years old. [citation needed]
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This temple depicts Varaha as a purely animal form. The temple is located in the Western Group of Temple Complex Khajuraho Group of Monuments, a World Heritage Site inscribed by UNESCO in 1986 because of its outstanding architecture and testimony to the Chandela dynasty. [1] [2] Khajuraho is a small village in Chattarpur District of Madhya ...
The most prominent temple of Varaha is the Sri Varahaswami Temple in Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh. It is located on the shores of a temple pond, called the Svami Pushkarini, in Tirumala, near Tirupati; to the north of the Tirumala Venkateshvara Temple (another temple of Vishnu in the form of Venkateshvara).