The Lakshminarayana temple located in the small hamlet of Hosaholalu in the Krishnarajpete taluq of temple of Hoysala architecture.The star shaped foundation is the speciality of Hoysala architecture and the temple is maintained by ASI.
The temple is of trikutachala style and the Navaranga has lathe-turned and well polished pillars which have the sculptures of madanikas suppoting the ceiling and when one stands on the navaranga all the three deities can be viewed
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| The soap stone pillars of the navaranga |
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| Hebberalina anjaneya which in kannada translates to thumb anjaneya and it is just the size of the thumb |
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| The Dwarapalaka |
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| Narasimha in the sanctum |
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| Mahishasura mardhini |
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| The baeutiful ceilings |
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| The main deity-Lakshmi Narayana |
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| The beatiful door frame |
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| Ganesha |
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| The beautiful ceilings |
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| Sri Venugopala |
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| The outer door |
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| The outer carved walls of the temple |
The Dashavataras
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| Matsya |
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| Kurma |
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Narasimha |
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| Vamana |
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| Parashurama |
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| Rama |
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| Krishna |
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| Buddha |
The outer walls also have scultures depicting scenes from the two famous epics Mahabharata and Ramayana an also has stories from Bhagavata.
These temples which has a high potential to be devoloped as a tourist destination often goes unnoticed and erodes away with time.
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| The ornate panels |
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| The view of the temple from the backward entrance |
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| Narasimha carved on outer wall |
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| Kalinga maradhana of Krishna |
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| Vishnu |
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| Narayana and lakshmi seated on Garuda |
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| Indra seated on his mount Airavata |
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| Gopura |
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| Brahma |
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| The front entrance |
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| A board depicting the history |
These temples which has a high potential to be devoloped as a tourist destination often goes unnoticed and erodes away with time.
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