Place · Shakta · West India · Maharashtra

Kolhapur

Also called: Karavirapura, Karavira

Seat of the Mahalakshmi (Ambabai) temple, one of the Shakti Peethas, and in the Tirumala telling the place Lakshmi withdrew to after Bhrigu's kick. Its own sthala purana was not fetched in this pass.

Sources: Venkateswara — Wikipedia; Tirupati: playing dice with a god in debt — Devdutt Pattanaik · see Kolhapur's web

Relations 2

Kolhapur home of

Lakshmi (Consort) Shakta · Bhrigu tests the three gods
Leaves Vaikuntha for Kolhapur (temple and magazine telling; called recent and untextual by a sympathetic source).
Lakshmi (Consort) Vaishnava · Bhrigu's kick and the coming of Srinivasa
Tirumala telling only: Lakshmi withdrew to Karavirapura after Bhrigu's kick; Kolhapur's own sthala purana not fetched.

Stories 2

Bhrigu tests the three gods
Legend · 4 tellings
Bhrigu's kick and the coming of Srinivasa
Temple legend · 4 tellings

Cited

Venkateswara — Wikipedia Encyclopedia
Tirupati: playing dice with a god in debt — Devdutt Pattanaik Popular retelling