![]() ![]() The temple has a very interesting story to it. Only when the world ends is when ants and flies are attracted to the sugar, this is the popular belief here. However, there are no ants or flies in this temple in spite of spilling of huge quantities of Panaka, sugar and other ingredients on the Temple floor. Ants, house flies and other flies are usually attracted to sweets and sweet drinks. ![]() This Panaka is the ‘prasadam’ and is offered to the devotees. Only when the gulping sound is stopped, the remaining Panaka comes out from the other end. Also, one can here the gulping sounds as Panaka is pored it in to the openings through a conch. ![]() The specialty and the unbelievable thing here is whenever Panaka is offered to the lord and irrespective of the quantities offered, only equal half of the drink comes out from the other end, the other half is drunk by the lord himself. Panaka are offered to lord as ‘Naivaidhyam’ every single day. He got this name ‘coz it is the favorite drink of this lord here. The lord Narasimha Swamy here is popularly known as Panaka Swamy. This drink is made on different occasions such as Ugadhi, Shivarathri, etc. Panaka is a sweet drink, which is made out of sugarcane juice sugar & jaggery (sugar made out of sugarcane) different variations also exists. ![]()
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