Ahobilam is a town and holy site in the Allagadda mandal of Nandyal district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

[2] The site has evidence of historical patronage from a number of regional dynasties, with the most significant being that of the Vijayanagara Kingdom.

One of the earliest literary references to Ahobilam is in the 9th-century Tamil-language religious work Periyatirumoḻi written by Thirumangai Alvar, where it is eulogized; this led to it being codified as one of the 108 canonical Divya Desams.

Ahobilam finds subsequent mention in several Sanskrit and Telugu-language texts between the 12th and 16th centuries.

[3][4] Inscriptions and other material evidence indicate that the shrines of the town received patronage from the Kakatiya and Reddi dynasties during the 13th and 14th centuries.

[8] The town of Ahobilam is home to ten shrines of Narasimha, the man-lion incarnation of the god Vishnu in Hinduism.