Panchadarla Umadharmalingeswara Temple

Published: 14-09-2016,08:40:41pm

Panchadarla (its original name is Dharapalem) one of the site seeing places in Andhra Pradesh, it is in Visakhapatnam district. Panchadarla village is situated at a distance of about 10 km north east of Yelamanchili and 50 km from Narsipatnam, it derived its name from the five Jets of water coming out of five fountains which receive their supplies from a natural perennial spring.

Nearby there is lingam on which are carved other lingams in 12 rows of 85 each and which is consequently known as the Kotilingam or Crore of lingams. There are several inscriptions on the pillars of the Mandapam in the temple and two of them dated in AD 1407 and 1428 contain a genealogy of chiefs who claimed Eastern Chalukya ancestry and bore the Eastern Chalukya titles of Sarvalokasraya and Vishnu Vardana.

Umadharmalingeswara Swamy temple, Radha Madhava Swamy temple and Kalyana Vinayaka (Dwimukhi Vinayaka) temple are famous in this place.