History
Kanaka Dasa was a great devotee of Udupi Sri Krishna, once he came on a pilgrimage to Udupi, as it was a Mutt, not a public temple he didn't go inside.As he had heard the greatness of the idol, he wanted to have darshan, but he was not able to go inside. Kanaka Dasa was astonished by the behavior of priests who behaved like the sole representatives of the god. So he began singing in the praise of the Lord, camping in a hut in front of Krishna Temple. So intense was the devotion of Kanaka Dasa, that without entering the shrine he was granted a sight of Krishna's image through a crack appearing on the western wall of the temple where he was camped. The statue of lord Krishna which was facing east is said to have turned towards west where Kanaka Dasa was camping.
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