Nandavaram

Nandavaram is a village in the Banaganapalle mandal, Nandyal district of Andhra Pradesh, India. Nandavaram village is famous for the temple of Goddess Sri Ramalinga Sowdeswari Amman. It is believed that Chowdeshwari devi came from Varanasi to Nandavarm through an underground passage within one day. The temple was built by King Nandana Chakravarthy. It is said that the actual deity that was present in the temple was so fearful to watch with the human eye and the powerful aura it carried made many a heart fail on seeing it. Therefore, the doors of the garbha griha were permanently closed and then another deity was made, which resembled the actual deity in posture, only less fearful to look at and that is the goddess deity that we see today in the temple. The temple structure was elevated so that the current deity sits exactly above the place where the original deity resides.