Kari Ghatta - Near Srirangapattana

Kari Ghatta:

In kannada Kari means Black and Ghatta means small hill, so KariGhatta means, black hill. This hill is located near Srirangapattana, near to Mysore.

Karighatta is just few hundred meters away from Bangalore-Mysore road, at near Srirangapattana.
Near to this hill river Cuavery, river Lokapavani (tributary of Cauvery river)  flows and there is one water canal flows surrounding this hill. You can see the spectacular view of these water flow, just like a snake, on the way to top of hill.

There is a good, winding road (rather it is good to say snake like road) from bottom of the hill to top of the hill. Also there is a steps that links bottom of the hill to top of the hill, those who can walk, and want to enjoy the beauty of the nature, it is good to take the steps, you can have chat with your fellow and enjoy the nature, take snap, sit on steps, take good, long breath(of course this is what each human enjoy more, except those who do not want to walk...)

The hill is mostly covered with grass which is almost 2 meter high, in local, it is called Dharbe, and this grass is to do auspicious work in India. The speciality of this hill is this grass, as this kind of grass is rare to find in other hill, that too in this quantity.

On top of this hill, Lord Srinivasa temple is there, it is very old temple and it is in good condition and priest do pooja on time. The temple is quite and away from city noise, so you can enjoy the piece and silence at this temple premise.

Temple Timing :  10:00 AM to 2:00 PM and evening from 4:00 PM to 6:30PM
Distance : From Mysore it is 20KM, from Bangalore it is 130KM
Contact : Sri Shesha Iyengar - 9341198456

This place is very well connected with road and train, one can get down at Srirangapattana and can hire a auto to go there, those who wants to drive, below is the location map

Place Location on Google Map:




Near by places:

Srirangapattana Sri Ranganatha Swami Temple
Srirangapattana Bird Sanctuary
Nimshanba Devei Temple
Mysore KRS
Somanathapura Hoysala Temple

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Karnataka Rivers

South Indian geography can be divided into two region

        1. Western Ghats
        2. Easter Ghats

"Ghat" means the mountain ranges of typically high altitude (Compared to other places) geographically unique, which attracts clouds and brigs rain and influences a lot in wind flow and controls overall natural resource distribution.

Western ghats starts from Tamilnadu state of south India to Rajasthan state of North india, where the end of ghat does not have much dens forest.

Most of the dense forest and sensitive region of the western ghats is in Karnataka, Goa and Maharastra states. This ghat section is birth place of many rivers, which form a life line of all living body of the states.

Karnataka have wester ghats which is very sensitive area such as Kudremukh forest range, which is close to chikkamagalur district, where smal changes in earth environment is reflected in plants growth and have potential to change echo system of the south India, including mansson which control the life of the entire Indian.

Like any other places in the planet earth, karnataks is rich in natural resources, like water, ores. There are many river, some of the rivers which flows via many states, of course, helps many people and creates water distribution issues in a region.

There are many rivers which take birth in karnataka and ends its journey in karnataka by joining Arabian sea. Because of this, the region has utilized the water of these rivers completely by constructing reservoirs, barrages, check dams and use this for irrigation and power generation, including nuclear thermal power plant. But sad part of this is, the water from these collected rivers are being used for Majorly power generation and not for any agricultural activity, of course the geography and the short length of the river bed made it is difficult to use for irrigation. And as in other part of the world, very less water flows into see at any point of time in a year and posing a very serious challenges to existence and survival of  river dependent plats, fishes, animals.


Since I like to know more about geography and i live in karanataks, it is very natural for me to have urge to understand local geography.

I have used Google maps to build/mark rivers which is part of karnataka region and the reservoir constructed in the region.

The maps has information about most of the (90%) rivers birth place and which place it joins other rivers and the reservoir on river flow path.

Below are the maps which i created

1. Karnataka Rivers
2. Karnataka dams/reservoir
3. Combined Karnataka Rivers Layer and Reservoir layer which help to understand overall water distribution

I am working on to have Lakes, small ponds and Lake interconnect lanes in Google maps, soon i will publish here to share with all.

Karnataka Rivers Layer



Karnataka Dams/Reservoirs



Combined Karanatak Resources layers




Those who wants to see only Karnataka border to understand the geography clear.

Karnataka Border



Thank you for Reading this page

Upanishath

There are many author written about upanishads. Some of the writer explain what they have understood and their interpretation and some of the writer just translate the shloka to the nearest meaning in particular language.

It is up to the reader what kind of explanation or knowledge they are expecting from any book.

But it is also true that, especially in upanishaths, apart from just translation, we need some explanation about how the shloka can be interpreted so that the reader can think in that direction and develop their own way of understanding and relating it to real life.

Just i have tried here to list out some of the good books name and link to the same. There are couple of web sites where the give complete work in PDF, free of cost, and they expect nothing. Even interested one can listen also.

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad  - By Swami Krishnananda

All Upandishand Ebook

About Spirituality by Swami Krishnananda

There are many writings By Swami Krishnananda in the website http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/

Quotes in software world

Every one must have heard Murphy law. I find this law is really good.

Here i am just listing some of the quotes i find interesting and i would like to start it from Murphy's law

" Things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance"
"If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong"

Other quotes that i like are...

"After months of training and you finally understand all of a programs commands, a revised version arrives with an all new command structure"

Some developer can say below sentence 

"That's not a "bug", thats a feature ! "


"Bugs will appear in one part of a working program when another 'unrelated' part is modified"
"At least one bug will be observed after the author leaves the organization"
"If such a program has not crashed yet, it is waiting for a critical moment before it crashes"
"Software bugs are impossible to detect by anybody except the end user"
"When something goes does go wrong, it won't be the thing you expected"
"In any "complete list", the most important item will be left off"
"The maintenance engineer will never have seen a model quite like yours before"
"It is axiomatic that any spares required will have just been discontinued and will be no longer in stock"
"If a circuit requires n components, then there will be only n - 1 components in locally-held stocks"
"Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence"
"Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand"

Too good one... is

"When all else fails, read the instructions"

Veda Links

Those who want to understand veda should read a translation of veda,updanishad and other related articles. It is also essential to listen mantras. Mantras should be pronounced correctly to understand better as the meaning of the mantra is completely depend on how we pronounce it.


Before sharing the links, i would like to share a picture which gives just a right information about Veda and its branches. I got this from "Vedavichara" site. Any one can go and access it from the link i shared below, but for easy access i shared this here.

Link to above table

Below is the links where you can get Audio of the Mantras. This site is not only limited to audio but also one can find lot of information about veda in English.

From Vedavichara:

Vedavichara
Rig Veda Audio
Yajur Veda (Two Parts in Yajur Veda)

• Shukla Yajurveda Audio
• Krishna Yajurveda Audio

Sama Veda Audio
Atharva Veda Audio
BhagavadGeetha


I thank to site "Vedavichara" for such a wonderful work for recording mantra in audio format and providing access to people who wants to understand veda. I hope this will help lot of people, like me, who trying to understand veda , may not completely, but as much as possible.

One more link to get Audio of all veda mantra is below. This is from site "http://www.astrojyoti.com/". I liked this very much as it is south indian style and it is clearly audible and also south indain has spent much to learn it, to get perfection in all mantras they practiced it and contributed a lot to veda. I am sorry, if it is hurting north indian, but i am in to the perfection side and i want pure klnowledge, no matter from where i get, this is what i learned from  veda.

From Astrojyothi:

Rig Veda Audio
Yajur Veda Audio (Taittiriiya)
Shukla Yajur Veda Audio (Kanva Shaka)
Sama Veda Audio
Atarva Veda Audio

Again Thanks to Astrojyothi for such a great work

From Greenmesg:

In this site, you can find Suktha and general Shloka, Mantra of all gods and Mantras from veda in English and Sanskrit with corresponding meaning in English. You can also get rare speeches of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, one of the most inspiring man in the work - Sri Swami Vivekananda, Sri Guru ramana maharshi and many rare life changing sentences.

Greenmesg site

Vedas and Upanishad  Here, you can find sukthas also

Veda Mantra and Shlokas in Kannada

ಓಂ ಸಹ ನಾವವತು । ಸಹ ನೌ ಭುನಕ್ತು । ಸಹವೀರ್ಯಂ ಕರವಾವಹೈ ।
ತೇಜಸ್ವಿ ನಾವಧೀತಮಸ್ತು । ಮಾ ವಿದ್ವಿಷಾವಹೈ ।। ಓಂ ಶಾಂತಿಃ ಶಾಂತಿಃ ಶಾಂತಿಃ ।।


Guru Astakam in Kannada:

Guruastaka is written by the great Sri Sri Sri Adi Shankaracharya, the founder of Advaitha Siddantha.
The Guruastaka convey the message how it is important to have guru to have full knowledge and to know which is good and which is bad. Though it is possible to get knowledge of good or bad without guru, but it is impossible to get true knowledge without guru. And thus it is very important to have right guru to have true knowledge, to give back something good to society, to help humanity.

Asta means 8 in Sanskrit. The Guru Astakam consist of 8 paragraph, each tells that, the humans, can attain wealth, knowledge, fame, follower and many worldly wealth, but how it is important to have guru.

English translation can be found @ http://stotram.co.in/

Weather in India

Timeanddate.com provides good information about local weather. The type of information it offers is amazing. you can check the past weather and also your can get different graphs to that is suitable for your understanding capability, example graph, raw data, etc.


Link to site: Timeanddate