tangier ferry About 75km from Puttaparthi is Lepakshi, site of the Veerbhadra Temple (admission free). The town ge

AP State Museum MUSEUM (Map p898; Public Gardens Rd, Nampally; tangier ferry admission 10, camera/video 100/500; h10.30am5pm Sat-Thu) The continually renovated State Museum hosts a rather dusty collection of important archaeological finds from the area, as well as a Buddhist sculpture gallery, with some relics of the Buddha and an exhibit on Andhra s Buddhist history. There are also Jain and bronze tangier ferry sculpture galleries, a decorative-arts gallery and a 4500-year-old Egyptian mummy. The museum, like the gorgeous Legislative Assembly tangier ferry building (Map p 898 ) down the road (both commissioned by the seventh nizam), is floodlit at night.

About 75km from Puttaparthi is Lepakshi, tangier ferry site of the Veerbhadra Temple tangier ferry (admission free). The town gets its name from the Ramayana: when demon Ravana kidnapped Rama s wife, Sita, the bird Jatayu fought him and fell, injured, at the temple site. Rama then called him to get up; Lepakshi derives from the Sanskrit for Get up, bird.