What is around Mallikarjuna
Temples and religious sites nearby
The bathing ghat on the Krishna, reached by steps. Pilgrims take a dip here for the belief that it washes away sins, and the tonsuring hall (Kalyana Katta) is on the way down.
The northern gateway of the Srisaila kshetra, upper and lower temples on a Nallamalla hill. Get down at Munnanooru or Rangapuram on the Hyderabad road and walk about 3 km; there is no bus, a private vehicle can drive up.
A Shiva temple at a meeting of rivers in Kurnool district, 55 km from Kurnool, under the Srisailam reservoir for about 8 months a year. It is visited March to June when the water drops; the devasthanam suggests staying in Kurnool for it.
The eastern gateway, a hill temple to Tripurantakeshwara with the Balatripurasundari Devi shrine below. The devasthanam calls it the prime one of the four gateways.
The western gateway on the Tungabhadra, with the Jogulamba Shakti Peetham and the nine Brahma temples, which the devasthanam calls a southern Kashi.
Other things to do here
No non-religious stop near Mallikarjuna has been sourced yet, so none is listed.Data check pending
- Devasthanam site, gateway temples and Patalaganga, temple trust, read 19 Oct 2026. Read from the site's JavaScript bundle. Only Sangameshwaram carries a distance there, and it is from Kurnool, not from Srisailam.
Doing it in the right order
Where a shrine nearby is paired with Mallikarjuna by its own tradition, do both in one visit: the temple page and the booking page state the day's darshan windows, and the pair is normally a morning. Distances on this page are only printed where a source stated one, so treat the list as things to plan around rather than a route with times.