The village of Rampura
A small and tidy village on the bank of the Cauvery — very close to the historically renowned cities of Mysuru and Srirangapatna.
A dancer of innocent expression.
The Sri Anjaneya enshrined here is in the rare Narthaki form — a dancer, with a soft and innocent gaze. The villagers will tell you He is the very lifeline of this place, and at times the gentle cause of the small mischiefs that happen here.
The wise of Rampura have long been seen as a proud symbol of this tradition — tending the fields by day, ringing the small brass bell on their way past the temple, at dawn and at dusk.
Hanuman returned to this very bend of the river.
The old people of the village say this is the place where, having gone to Lanka and beheld Mother Sita, Hanuman returned bearing her Chudamani — the crest-jewel — and the fruit of his mission. He paused here, joyful and spent, on the way back to Sri Rama.
Later, when Sri Rama Himself journeyed south, He is said to have stopped at Rampura, installed Ramalingeshwara, rested briefly near Sage Gautama, and only then continued on.
Ahalya Devi's release from her long stone-curse — the local tradition holds — may well have happened in these very fields.
The village deity — Anjaneya, dancing.
Most temples to Hanuman show Him standing in vīra posture, mace in hand. In Rampura, He dances. The rare Nartaki Anjaneya — a form of joy and lightness — has been the quiet centre of this village for generations. The old garbhagudi was renovated, completing in June 2026; and now, beside Him, a new shrine to Sri Vidya Hayagreeva is being built. Hayagreeva, the giver of learning, is why the village no longer sends its children away to begin their letters — that first rite, Aksharabhyasam, the writing of a child's first letters, can now be done at His feet.