Vinayaka Temple

The Vinayaka Temple, formally the Sri Varasidhi Vinayaka Swamy Temple, is a Ganesha shrine at Kanipakam in Andhra Pradesh. Its Ganesha is said to dwell in a well that never runs dry: legend tells of three brothers, one mute, one deaf and one blind, who struck a hard object while digging, saw blood well up and were cured, after which the villagers uncovered the image but could never find its base.

The stone temple was founded under the Chola emperor Kulottunga I, who reigned from 1070 to 1120, and enlarged in 1336 by the emperors of Vijayanagara. Piety held that the image was growing in its well, so that ever less of it could be seen above the water.