SRIKALAHASTI

sri kalahasti of today was once a dense forest.And there was a lingam in that forest a man is taking care of it for some reason he couldn't come othe pace and place gone very dirty and there came a hunter who saw these cleaned the place and gave meat as prasada.oneday by routine this hunter while doing the process the priest of the lingam came there and watched everything from a distance.suddenly one eyes of the lingam was pouring outbloo seeing this the hunter place his one eye there and after that other eye also got pouring of the
blood now having his legs in the statue he piercedhis eyes and placed in gods eye suddenly god appeared before him and gave him liberation he is considered as a nayanmar.he is called kannappa after this incident.this place is later forme into a temple and lot of pilgrimages coming for workship.this temple is also used as a place for raghu ,kethu priti place.