Dakshinamukha Nandi Tirtha Kalyani Temple, Hindu temple in Malleswaram, Bengaluru, India.

The Dakshinamukha Nandi Tirtha Kalyani is a Hindu temple in Malleswaram, a neighborhood in Bengaluru, Karnataka. A stone bull stands on a platform above the stone phallus, with clear water continuously flowing from its mouth.

The entire temple complex lay buried underground until 1997, when local residents stopped a planned construction project. The excavation revealed the chamber with the bull and the stone phallus, which had likely been under sediment for centuries.

The name Dakshinamukha refers to the stone bull facing south, a rare orientation in this religious tradition. Visitors see worshippers collecting the flowing water and using it for prayers as they walk around the sacred space.

The temple stands on 2nd Temple Street in Malleswaram, in front of the Gangamma temple and diagonally opposite the Kadu Malleshwara temple. It sits below the surrounding ground level, so visitors descend into the pillared corridor around the stepped tank. Shoes come off before entering, and the shrine is busiest on Maha Shivaratri.

The water is not spring-fed: it comes from the overflow of Sankey Tank, built around 1882. Rao Bahadur Yele Mallappa Shetty ran a conduit pipe from the tank to the Nandi's mouth so water falls year-round onto the Shivalinga, then drains into the stepped tank and an outside well.