This is a list of independent priests serving the DFW metro area residents. Their mother tongue and the languages they are extremely fluent in are highlighted in bold fonts.

Please contact me to let me know if more priests are available in the DFW area and their names are not present in this list.

Priest Name	Phone #	Languages Spoken	Location
Chandramouli Sastrigal	+1-469-500-6838	Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, and Kannada.	Plano, TX
Ramacharyulu Mukkotipuram	+1-214-236-4011	Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, and English	Shirdi Sai Center of Texas, Irving, TX
M. Vaithianathan Sastrigal	+1-267-884-6664	Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada, and English	Shraad meals, மடி சமையல், మడి వంట, ಮಡಿ ಅಡಿಗೆ, श्राद्ध भोजन, and the like will be prepared on request.
V Lakshminarayan Sastrigal	+1-267-945-8341	Tamil, English, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, and Kannada	Son of priest Vaithinathan Sastrigal (previous row).
Manohar Ramachar DP Diguvakote	+1-945-233-8201	Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, and English	Irving area, TX
Venkatesa Iyengar Swamy	+1-818-406-2660	Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit, English, and Hindi	DFW area. Expert in Sudharshana Homa, teaching Sanskrit, and other vedic texts.
Girish Hebbar	+1-469-427-1893	Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and English	Coppell, TX
Gopalakrishna Bhat	+1-248-225-9754	Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and English	Plano, TX
Varadharajan Sastrigal	+1-512-705-4440	Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and English.	Frisco, TX
Subramanyam Rallabandi	+1-214-257-8500	Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, and English.	Sri HariHara Peetham, Coppell, TX
Narasimha Charya Tirumala	+1-512-945-9092	Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Hindi	Melissa, TX
Srinivasacharyulu AL	+1-724-234-8374	Telugu, Tamil, Sanskrit, English, Kannada, and Hindi	Frisco, TX
Narasimha Priest	+1-469-569-0102 +1-469-664-9910	Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.	McKinney, TX
Rangarajan T.	+1-646-897-7290	Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and English	Plano, TX
Prakash Bhat	+1-917-207-6287 priestPrakash@ gmail.com	Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, English	DFW Area
Aswini Rao	+1-612-961-9122
Shri Ugandar garu	+1-281-683-8330	Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, and English.	Irving, TX
Sridhar Desikachar	+1-682-408-8232	Tamil, Telugu, English, and Hindi.	DFW area

Priests Outside DFW Area

Priest Name	Phone Number	Languages Spoken	Temple Association?
Kalyana Krishnan	+1-240-289-3866	Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and English	HOUSTON, Independent Priest
Rakesh_Kaktwan	+1-773-510-1726	Hindi, English, and N. Indian languages	Temple, TX

Each temple has priests on its rolls. Please contact the temples directly to get the service of their priests. There might additional charges payable to the temple to use their priests’ services.

Last updated: Mar 26th, 2025.