01The cowherd’s find
The temple’s account says that a cowherd named Singam Sanjeevudu lost a cow in these hills and, searching for it, fell asleep, and Anjaneya appeared to him in a dream and showed him where he lay hidden under the bushes; the cowherd found the image and the cow together and built the first shrine. The image looks out with two faces, the Lord as Hanuman and as Narasimha, holding the conch and discus of Vishnu. The hill, covered with rocks and trees, is said to have received a fragment of the Sanjeevani mountain.
02Hanuman deeksha
Many devotees of Telangana keep Hanuman deeksha, a period of vows in saffron with fasting and celibacy, and end it at Kondagattu at Hanuman Jayanti, when the hill turns orange with them. Childless couples stay at the temple for forty days of worship. Tuesdays and Saturdays are the busy days of the week. The temple has been expanded by the state in recent years.
About 15 km from Jagtial and 35 km from Karimnagar. The ghat road up the hill is steep; drive with care.
