Ardhagiri Sri Veeranjaneya Swamy Temple is located one and a half km. up of the hill in Aragonda

Aragonda

Aragonda is a village in Thavanampalle Mandal of Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is also the biggest village and major panchayat in the mandal.- Demographics :Telugu is the official language. It is located 20 km from the Chittoor town...

village, Chittor District, Andhra Pradesh, 15 km away from Kanipakam.

History

According to legend, during Tretayuga, Hanuman brought Sanjeeva Parvatham in order to save Lakshmana during a war when Lakshmana fell unconscious. During the journey, half of Sanjeeva Parvatham fell, and the place where it landed came is known as Aragonda. Aragonda, initially is called as Arakonda (In Telugu language, "Ara" (sounds A'raw)means 'Half' and "Konda" (sounds Kon'Da) means Hill or Mountain). With the time, the people changed their way of pronouncing this word "Arakonda" as "Aragonda" which is now the name of the village under this hill. This hill is famous with name "Ardhagiri" (Ardha means Half and Ge'ree means mountain). In Ardhagiri, it is believed that Sanjeevaraya Pushkarini (pond containing the holy water) never gets dried nor spoiled, even when kept for long periods of time. When devotees drink this theerham (or holy water) from the Sanjeevaraya Pushkarini, all types of diseases are getting cured.

Mr. Paimagham Sugunakara Reddy, Chairman of the above Ardhagiri Shree Veeranganeya Swamy Temple, is responsible for the development of this ancient temple, which did not have proper road, electricity, and other infrastructure facilities earlier.

Everyday, about 3-5 thousand devotees visit the temple and every month on the Pournami day, about 30,000 devotees come to the temple and stay there overnight.

External links

• Lord Hanuman at Sri Veeranjaneya Swamy Temple in the "Holy Water" tank