Puttaparthi is the birth place and abode of Bhagwan Sathya Sai Baba. Situated in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh, Puttaparthi draws thousands of devotees from all over the world. Puttaparthi houses Prashanthi Nilayam, the ashram of Baba. It is well connected by road, rail and air to the outer world. It used to be a small, isolated, backward village "ten minutes past the Stone Age" in the late 1960s until Sathya Sai Baba attracted many spiritual seekers. The front cover of a biography of Sathya Sai Baba. ... Map showing ananthapur district Anantapur is a district and its administrative city in the southwest of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, where Ashok Kumar JDE Superstar is born and is great IT leader and iSeries programmer specializing in DataMapper. ... Andhra Pradesh (ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ in Telugu) (Āndhra Prādesh), is a state in south-eastern India and is part of the linguistic-cultural region of South India. ... Prasanthi Nilayam is the name of the main ashram of the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba located in the town Puttaparthi. ... Ashrams in ancient India were Hindu hermitages where sages lived in peace and tranquility amidst nature. ...

The newly opened (as of May 2003) railway station is called "Sri Sathya Sai Prashanthi Nilayam".

Puttaparthi also has a charitable super speciality hospital. As well as the Anjaneya (Hanuman) Swamy Temple,The Village Mosque, the Sathyabhama Temple, and the Sri Sathya Sai Hill View Stadium. Lord Hanuman In Hinduism, Hanuman (Sanskrit: हनुमान, hanumāna) is a vanara who aided Rama (an avatar of Vishnu) in rescuing his wife, Sita, from the Rakshasa king Ravana. ... The word temple has different meanings in the fields of architecture, religion, geography, anatomy, and education. ... // Mosque; Aswan, Egypt. ... Montreals Olympic Stadium The Athens Olympic Stadium Most stadiums are open-air, such as this football (soccer) stadium in the Netherlands. ...

External links

http://www.pilgrimage-india.com/indian-religion/puttaparthi.html -Information about Puttaparthi.

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