🛕 Religious📍 Heritage📍 Cultural

Mangalagiri (Panakala Narasimha)

Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India

4.3 (0)

Overview

A hill temple of Narasimha who accepts only 'panakam' (jaggery water) as offering, half of which he mysteriously drinks — beneath a giant unfinished gopuram.

Why visit: A deity who drinks jaggery-water, and a towering gopuram.

Things to do

›Panakala Narasimha
›Jaggery offering
›Giant gopuram
›Hilltop views

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Mar

Entry fee

Free

Est. budget

₹100–400

Duration

Half day

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