KANIPAKAM HISTORY

శివుడు జ్ఞాన మూర్తి,, శక్తి ఆనందరూపిని,జ్ఞానఆనందాలు విడిగా వుండవు.ఈ శివశక్తుల ఎకతత్వమే  గణపతి .అంటే జ్ఞాన ఆనంద  సమాహర స్వరూపం ఈ తత్వాన్నే వివిధ ఉపాసన పద్దతులుగా ,కధలుగా రూపాలుగా వివరించాయి పురాణాది శాస్త్రాలు ..ధర్మగతికి ,దేవకార్యలకు ఆటంకాలు ఎదురై జగత్ స్థితికి అవరోధాలు కలిగినప్పుడు ఆ విఘ్నాలను  పరిహరించాదనికై  పలు రూపాలతో వినాయకుడు ఆవిర్భవించాడు ....

 ONCE UPON A TIME KANIPAKAM WAS CALLED "VIHARAPURI".
KANI MEANS "WETLAND",AGAIN PARAKAM MEANS FLOW OF WATER INTO WETLAND  THAT IS IRRIGATION


 THIS temple has a legend which runs as follows in brief.there were three handicapped persons ,dumb,deaf and blind and all the three used to live by cultivating a small piece of land.while so when two of them were engaged in peddling to lift water,the other man was doing work of directing the lifted water trough channel to their wetland  while doing so after sometime he came to know that  water in the well was over ,it seems that he got into the well in order to deepen the well just tried to dig and hit a stone like thing with an iron weapon .there he saw a REd blood with the result whole water turned into red colour.


At the very sight all the three got rid off their handicappedness and become perfect.when persons of the surrounding villages and of the village began to dig,to their astonishment the idol of SWAMY was found out!but when they tried to dig even very deep they could not find full posture of SWAMY. ..Realising that it was a "SWAYAMBOO IDOL",, their joy knew no bounds.


Ultimately they offered many number of coconuts with all prayers modestly kneeling before the new idol offered "mangalaharathi".they declared the idol as "swayamboo Ganapathi" .

The indication of this was  recognised as KANI  since there ,the words KANIPAKAM_KANIPAKAM_KANIPAKAM which is in tamil has been derived


afterwards a temple was built,the time when this happened,is not cleanly known.we could see the well surrounding the swamy .this well will always be full with water.during Rainy season water will be overflowing




Ther is a dent on the head of the image to show that it has had the blow of some iron weapon .Swamy is eternally growing always .At this time we could see knees and the abdomen of the idol.to show that Swamy is always GROWING ,the silver "KAWACHAM" that was manufactured 60years ago by Smt.Lakshmamma W/o BEZAWADA SIDDAIAH  OF AROGONDA  GOLLAPALLE VILLAGE.