LEKSHMI VARAHA MOORTHY TEMPLE



LEKSHMI VARAHA MOORTHY TEMPLE

Location :- Sree Varaham – South Fort – Trivandrum, Kerala, India

As you know in India there are very few temples belongs to Lord Varaha.  This lord was third avatar of Lord Mahavishnu.  In best of knowledge - Kerala there are two famous temples belongs to Varaha. 


One is situated at Kuttippuram – Panniyoor of Northern Kerala.  It is known as ‘Panniyoor Sree Varaha Temple’.  Another one located at Capital city of Kerala – Trivandrum.

According to the Hindu mythology – During the period of origination of Universe - whole Universe was flooded with water.  So the Lord Brahma – who has the divine responsibility of creation of new things in the universe created a new Lord.  It had a face of a ‘Pig’ with a human body.  It was an extremely big creature with four hands holds ‘Conch’, ‘Chakra’, ‘Mace’ and ‘Lotus’ like Lord Vishnu.



All Devas started to praise the Lord Varaha.  He jumped into the flooded water in the Universe and found the Mother Earth.  Because of this incident this Lord is also known as “Bhoo Varaha Moorthy”.
If someone has any kind of issues related to land or real estate should try to visit the Varaha Temples.
Certainly, Lord will help his devotees.  Lord Varaha is so powerful to save the people - who had been influenced by Black Magic.  He will destroy enemies of his devotees. 

This temple is located at just one kilometer away from the World’s Richest Temple ‘Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple’ in Trivandrum, Kerala.  It had been believed that Lord Parasurama had installed this Idol here.  Here this Lord is giving ‘Darsan’ to his devotees in sitting position with his wife ‘Goddess Mahalekshmi’.  It is a very rare temple in Kerala as well as in India. 



King Arjuna of Mahabharata era created a huge pond in front of this temple called – Varaha Theertham.  It has been considered as one of the 108 major theertham [Holy water] in India. 



Main offerings to this lord are – ‘Palpayasam’, ‘Laksharchana’, ‘Pushpabhishekam’ etc.
This temple belongs to Travancore Devaswom Board. 
This temple is well connected with Air, Rail and Road transports.


Try to get the blessings of this rare Lord Sree Varaha Moorthy  !


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