Matsya Narayana Temple, Bangalore

Sri Matsya Narayana Temple
Sri Matsya Narayana Temple
Religion
Affiliation	Hinduism
District	Bangalore
Deity	Sri Matsya Narayana (Vishnu)
Location
Location	Bangalore
State	Karnataka
Country	India
Geographic coordinates	12°58′N 77°38′E / 12.967°N 77.633°E
Architecture
Type	Temple
Website
	http://www.omkarhills.org/

The Sri Matsya Narayana Temple is located in Bangalore, in the state of Karnataka, India. The temple is located in Omkar Ashram,^[1] in Omkar Hills Bangalore.^[2] The temple is located in Omkar Ashram, in Omkar Hills Bangalore.

Religious significance

The Sri Matsya Narayana Temple is the only temple in Karnataka dedicated to Sri Matsya Narayana Swamy. The Matsya avatara was the first incarnation of Hindu deity Vishnu among the dashavatara (ten avataras) of Vishnu. Matsya means ‘fish’ in Sanskrit^[3]^[4] and Matsya avatara is the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of a fish.^[3]^[5] At the end of the first epoch (Satya Yuga), when the world was destroyed by a great flood, Vishnu is believed to have assumed this form to save humanity and the Vedas from the great deluge.^[4]

The Matsya avatara is generally represented as a four-armed deity having the upper half of Vishnu with four arms. Two arms hold shanka (conch shell) and chakram (divine discus) and the other two arms are in abhaya (divine protection) and varada (boon) and the lower half of Matsya (fish).

Worship and festival

The temple is open for darshan from 7 AM to 12.30 PM and from 4.30 PM to 8PM on Monday to Saturday and on Sundays and holidays, the temple is open for darshan from 7 AM to 8 PM.

The Matsya Narayana temple celebrates the major annual festival on Matsya Jayanti. The annual festival of Matsya Jayanti is celebrated on Chaitra Shukla Paksha Tritya (Third day of the waxing moon period of the Chaitra month (March- April)) every year.

References

^ "Omkar Ashrama - Omkara Hills".
^ "Matsya Narayana Temple Bangalore".^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b "Matsya Purana complete". dharmakshetra.com. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
^ ^a ^b Glucklich, Ariel (11 April 2008). "9 Maps and Myths in the Matsya Purana". The Strides of Vishnu : Hindu Culture in Historical Perspective: Hindu Culture in Historical Perspective. Oxford University Press. pp. 155–156. ISBN 9780199718252. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
^ "Manas: Indian Religions, Vishnu". sscnet.ucla.edu/. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2014.