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🔆Simhachalam Temple

✅During recent conservation efforts, epigraphists from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) uncovered a Telugu inscription on the wall above the statue of Lord Hanuman at the 13th-century Simhachalam temple.

✅Simhachalam Temple, originally known as Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, is a Hindu temple located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

✅It is dedicated to the incarnation (avatar) of Vishnu known as Narasimha
(the man-lion).

✅It was constructed in the 11th century by the Gajapati rulers of Odisha.

✅Kulottunga Chola I of Tamilnadu, made endowments to this temple, as evidenced from inscriptions dating back to the year 1087.

✅The Vengi Chalukyas of Andhra Pradesh renovated the original shrine in the 11th century.

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🔆Simhachalam Temple

✅During recent conservation efforts, epigraphists from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) uncovered a Telugu inscription on the wall above the statue of Lord Hanuman at the 13th-century Simhachalam temple.

✅Simhachalam Temple, originally known as Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, is a Hindu temple located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

✅It is dedicated to the incarnation (avatar) of Vishnu known as Narasimha
(the man-lion).

✅It was constructed in the 11th century by the Gajapati rulers of Odisha.

✅Kulottunga Chola I of Tamilnadu, made endowments to this temple, as evidenced from inscriptions dating back to the year 1087.

✅The Vengi Chalukyas of Andhra Pradesh renovated the original shrine in the 11th century.

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