Basar in Adilabad district is popularly known for Gnana Saraswati temple and thousands of devotees throng the temple from different parts of the State and other States everyday. It was in erstwhile undivided Andhra Pradesh and now it is in Telangana State.
Now, the residuary Andhra Pradesh State is going to have the same temple on the banks of river Godavari at the cultural capital of the State, Rajahmundry.
At the same place, now Goddess Saraswati is manifesting herself in the form of ‘Akshara Maalika Gnana Saraswati’.
The Goutama Ghat, an adobe of several temples and spiritual centres and Hindu religious organisations, is going to have this magnificent construction with three floors including a cellar for safe custody locker and lift facility. The temple is going to be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs. 6 crores and a committee ‘Sri Gnana Saraswathi Peetam Charitable Trust’ headed by Rankireddy Subba Raju, chairman of RSR Foundation, to complete the work. .
The construction of ‘Gnana Saraswathi Peetam’ is taking place rapidly and the temple’s Mukha Mandapam (Main Hall) consists of 56 pillars, carved from single-stones. These 56 pillars represent the ‘Aakaaraa Devathas’ are sculpted as presiding deities on all the pillars, one on each- with different decorations, vahanas (vehicles), and aradhanas (ways of worship), and spiritual appearances (vibhavas).
The main Goddess, i.e., the presiding deity (Moola Virat) of the temple, ‘Sri Gnana Saraswati’ manifests herself on a Marakatha stone (from Nepal), representing the combined spiritual force of all these deities.
The Goutama Ghat is going to have this magnificent construction with three floors including a cellar for safe custody locker and lift facility
