THE HISTORY OF KHIDRAPUR KOPESHWAR TEMPLE

Hi guys its pramod,

now this being my 4th blog post i'm happy to tell you that i'm happy that you guys read my blog. Now this a story of a place in maharashtra and karnataka border its just a mysterious story of the temple of kopeshwar which is in khidrapur near the river banks of krishna. here's the story.

                        A few weeks ago i had just visited a nice and calm place which is not really famous at all. As I mentioned it above the temple of kopeshwar in khidrapur is an oldest temple known.   It was built by Shilahara King Gandaraditya in the 12th century by Shilahara kings Gandaraditya, Vijayaditya and Bhoj-2 between 1109 and 1178 AD and then by Seuna Yadavas. It is dedicated to Lord Shiva. It is to the east of Kolhapur, ancient & artistic on the bank of the Krishna river.

                       The story the temple goes like this . ' Sati ' the beloved wife of Lord Shiva went to his father's place to attend the Yagnya along with Nandi. But her father' Daksha Parajapati ' insulted her & used bad words for Lord Shiva. Humiliated 'Sati ' jumped in to Yagnya fire and finished her life. Getting this news Lord Shiva got very angry & he created Virbhadra the demon from his hairs & asked him to destroy the Prajapati's yagnya. lord Shiva was very angry at the death of his beloved wife ' Sati ' So the name derived 'Kopeshwar Mahadev' is due to his anger the whole world started shaking & was at the verge of destruction. To pacify Lord Shiva from anger Lord Vishnu came there & stopped Lord Shiva from destructing the world so the name ' Dhopeshwar ' was given to the idol of Lord Vihnu. Since Nandi had gone with ' Sati ' , so we do not see Nandi idol in the Kopeshwar mandir.

The swarag mandap

     As the temple looks like a joint but it's a two divided temple the swarag mandap and the main temple of lord "shiva" the god of all god. the swarag mandap is a circular place which has a opening in the top and when a person looks at it the sky looks like heaven. The back temple dosen't has a much of story but it is the best sculptures and it includes a "pinda" of lord shiva the temple on the back side has many statues of lord "ganesha" and also lord "vishnu" both the sides of the temple include those statues and the back side is a plane side but the best part is that it includes the sign of "om" all over the wall drawn of oil by the hands of the devotees. All the storeis goo and people over here still belive that this temple was build in a night it is obvious that when a person looks at that temple won't say that it was even build in a night but people belive in that story.

So this was the story of the mystious temple of kopeshwar and every one should visit this temple.