Guru Kottureshwara Rathotsava 28.02.2019
Shri Guru Kottureshwara Temple at Kotturu is an ancient temple located at the Kottur, Bellary District and it is 280 KM from Bangalore.
The main attraction of this place is car festival (Rathothsava) that takes place every year in Magha masa ( somewhere in February ) this is one of unique experince for the devotees. Once the Mula Nakshatra starts, the ratha moves a bit on its own and later devotees start pulling the ratha.
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more... old method of offering banana, dates and coconut to wheels of rath discarded to Lord Kottureshwara from last year( New Rath built last year). More than five to six lacs people gather for car festival.
Local politicians and MP, MLAs also take part in this car festival. They know about the pending railway project connecting Harihar to Hospet via this holy place Kotturu since more than three decades.
If they could pay the attention and extra efforts to extend the train service with some long route trains as promised by railway authoritis end of this march, it would change the lives of several poor people of this region.
Hope for the best at least this year. ( As parliment general elections in April )