Chamundi Hills & Nandi Monolith
The hill sacred to the Mysore royal family, crowned by the Chamundeshwari temple and reached by a thousand-step stairway guarded midway by a huge monolithic Nandi bull carved in 1659.
Chamundi Hill rises about 1,000 metres above sea level on the edge of Mysuru city and takes its name from Chamundeshwari, the fierce form of the goddess Durga who is the Mysore Wodeyar dynasty’s tutelary deity — the very name “Mysuru” is popularly traced to “Mahishasura,” the buffalo-demon the goddess is said to have slain here.
Midway up the old stone stairway of roughly a thousand steps sits the hill’s other famous landmark: a monolithic Nandi (Shiva’s bull mount) about 4.9 metres tall, carved from a single block of black granite in 1659 during the Mysore Kingdom’s Wodeyar rule, garlanded and worshipped to this day by pilgrims climbing to the temple above.
Getting there: A motorable road and the old pilgrim stairway both climb Chamundi Hill from Mysuru city, about 13 km from the palace; the post office serves the small hilltop settlement around the temple.
The site itself
Where to get your stamp cancelled
This may not be next to the site itself — some post offices serve several nearby landmarks.
- Post office
- Chamundi Hill Post Office
- Pincode
- 570010
- Address
- Chamundi Hill Post Office, Chamundi Hill Road, Mysuru District, Karnataka
Sources
- Project maintainer transcription of the physical Philately Passport booklet (district/landmark/post office list)
- Chamundi Hill pincode record — Mappls