Umamaheshwaram(Telugu: ఉమామహేశ్వరము, also known as Maheshwaram, Umamaheshrum ) is a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located in picturesque Nallamala forest range - around 100 kilometers away from Hyderabad on the Hyderabad-Srisailam highway.
Umamaheshwaram is Northern gateway of Srisailam-one of the jyotirlingas. It is mentioned in many Vedas that visit to Srisailam sans Umamaheswaram is incomplete. It is atop the hill properly covered by huge trees. Hill ranges shields temple and 500 metres of stretch to PapaNasanam. So all through the day hardly any sun light falls on this stretch of 500 meters atop the hill. Thus maintaining the temperature below normal all through the year. This is the reason it is popularly known as Poor man’s Ooti.
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It is around 200 meters away from the Sanctum Sanctorum- where water comes out underneath the huge rocks at the same rate all through the year. You have a rock-pot over there that gets filled with the water for every 5 minutes and overflows to water a stretch of Jasmine/other plants down
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