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Deva bhoomi

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I believed that Hampi has it's own historical charm but this trip to Hampi changed my perspective as looking   at it as just an old age charm and opened my eyes to its rich mythological and historical heritage. We started our journey taking the blessings of sasivekalu Ganapathy. Our guide Mallikarjun paused to explain that the name sasive kalu is be coz of the deity 's belly in the shape of sasive kalu. It was built by a sasive kalu merchant and  hence the name We were amazed by his Kannada where he never used a word of English ." namma  kalu Galige   chalane Kottu   Navu Mundu varida Nantara " we reached Lakshmi narasimha a monolith sitting in a yoga posture .We could   only see the narasimha with one hand of Lakshmi .originally it seems that there was a satue of Lakshmi sitting on his left thigh .It’s solitary beauty is just amazing .Just next to it is Badavi linga which   i