Temples of Turuvekere Taluq, Tumkur Dist., Karnataka.

TURUVEKERE (Turu + kere = abundent cows and natural water sources) has got thousands of years history from the time of sages and being an Agrahara given to Bramhins way back in 13th Century. Best of the Sanskrit scholers of Vedas and pooja shastras who were honered from Sringeri Peeta, Mysore Kings are from this place. Turuvekere has few good temples very near to each other built by Hoysala kings important being Moole Shankara Temple, Chennakeshava temple, Ganagadareshwara temple and Sri Mahalakshmi Beteraya swamy temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu, oldest of these being 1194 AD. From Bangalore 131 kms with very good road. ( 31 kms from Yediyur)

 — in Turuvekere.



                                         Gangadhareshwara Temple

  

Gangadhareshwara Temple

Gangadhareshwara Temple

Gangadhareshwara Temple

Gangadhareshwara Temple

Gangadhareshwara Temple

Gangadhareshwara Temple

Gangadhareshwara Temple

Gangadhareshwara Temple

Gangadhareshwara Temple

Gangadhareshwara Temple

Gangadhareshwara Temple

Gangadhareshwara Temple

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Gangadhareshwara Temple

Gangadhareshwara Temple

Gangadhareshwara Temple

Gangadhareshwara Temple

Gangadhareshwara Temple

 

Gangadhareshwara Temple

Moole Shankara Temple

Moole Shankara Temple

 Moole Shankara Temple

Moole Shankara Temple

Moole Shankara Temple

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Moole Shankara Temple

Mahalakshmi Beterayaswamy temple

Mahalakshmi Beterayaswamy temple

Mahalakshmi Beterayaswamy temple

Mahalakshmi Beterayaswamy temple

 Mahalakshmi Beterayaswamy temple

Mahalakshmi Beterayaswamy temple

Sri Chennakeshava temple

Sri Chennakeshava temple

There are no good hotels at Turuvekere, you may have to come to Yediyur for Mayur KSTDC hotel, Adigas hotels. You may buy fruits and vegetables at this point. You may take lot of photographs of nature and birds.

SRI LAKSHMI NARAYANA TEMPLE, HOSAHOLALU

Sri Lakshminarayana Temple, at Hosaholalu

This Lakshminarayana Temple is built by King Vira Someshwara of the Hoysala Empire in 1250 C.E.  The town of Hosaholalu is about 174 kms. from Bangalore, 60 kms, from Hassan and 45 Kms ,from the heritage city of Mysore, the cultural capital of Karnataka state..

The temple is an splendid example of a trikuta vimana (three shrined) temple though only the central shrine exhibits a tower (superstructure or Sikhara) on top.The lateral shrines are square in construction with five projections and no special features. The central shrine is well decorated and its tower has a sukanasi (called "nose") which is actually a lower tower over the vestibule that connects the shrine (cella containing the image of the deity) to the hall (mantapa). The sukanasi looks like an extension of the main tower over the central shrine.The material used for the temple construction is chloritic schist, more commonly known as Soapstone. The temple is built on a jagati (platform), a Hoysala innovation that elevates the temple by about a meter.

According to art critic Gerard Foekema, the temple as a whole exhibits the "new style" and belongs to the 2nd phase of Hoysala building activity (13th century), with two sets of eaves, and six moldings at the base of the outer wall.The first eave is located where the superstructure meets the temple outer wall and the second eave runs around the temple and about a metre below the first eave. In between the two eaves are decorative miniature towers on pilasters (called Aedicule), with sculptured wall images of Hindu deities and their attendants below the second eave. Being a Vaishnava temple (a Hindu sect), most of the images represent some form of Hindu god Vishnu, his consort and his attendants. There are a hundred and twenty such images. In all there are twenty four sculptures of Vishnu standing upright holding in his four arms the four attributes, aconch, a wheel, a lotus and a mace in all possible permutations. Below the panel of deities is the base of the wall consisting of six decorative rectangular moldings of equal width which run all around the temple.

The six horizontal mouldings are intricately sculptured and are called friezes. Seen from top to bottom; the first frieze depicts birds (hansa), the second depicts aquatic monsters (makara), the third frieze has depictions of Hindu epics and other mythological and puranic stories narrated in the clockwise direction (direction of devotee circumabulation), the fourth frieze has leafy scrolls, the fifth and sixth friezes have a procession of horses and elephants respectively. In the frieze that depicts the epics, the Ramayana starts from the western corner of the southern shrine and the Mahabharata starts from the northern side of the central shrine vividly illustrating the demise of many heroes of the famous war between Pandavas andKauravas.

The interior of the temple consists of a closed hall (mantapa) of modest size with four polished lathe turned pillars supporting the roof. The four central pillars divide the hall into nine equal "bays" (compartments) and nine decorated ceilings.The sanctum of the three shrines contain the images of Venugopala,Narayana in the middle and Lakshminarasimha; all forms (Avatar) of Vishnu.

 

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K.R.pet is near to this place.Being very near to Mysore (55 Kms) and Bangalore (166 Kms). Roads are good. Not too good hotels are there. Mandya or Mysore is better for that. Near by places are worth seeing like Panchalingeshwara temple, Nambinarayana temple, Gopalaswamy temple, Kallahalli, varadahalli, Sunset and falls at
Thanks to Wikipedia for all the help about Hosaholalu.