Shri Lakshmi Ramana Swamy Gudi

The story of Shri Lakshmi Ramana Swamy Gudi

Shri Lakshmi Ramana Swamy Gudi stands inside Mysore Palace, and the one feature you can pick out immediately is its ornate, towering gopura.

This temple has no dedicated encyclopedia entry of its own, so the safest anchors are the place itself and the temple context around it. A practical note attached to Shri Lakshmi Ramana Swamy Gudi dates that gopura to the 16th century. A published page on a better-known Lakshmiramana Swamy Temple says a temple by that name near Mysore Palace is an ancient Vishnu temple dating back to the 12th century, built by the Hoysalas and later patronized by the Wodeyar dynasty. Another published page places Shri Lakshmi Ramana Swamy Gudi within the Mysore Palace complex and says its idols were moved to their current location in 1937 after a legal process involving Sri Chikkanna Dasa and Sri Sampath Krishna Jois.

So what you are looking at is a Hindu temple in the palace grounds, part of the Lakshmi tradition of worship. The entry gate is the clearest thing to notice from here, because it frames the temple before you go deeper in. If you are planning a visit, one published guide lists timings as 6 am–8:30 pm.