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1. Hulikere Pond – A Hoysala Kalyāni near Hālibedū
It is a Kalyāni like many other temple ponds. A Hindu temple is never alone. It is never just the creation of man. It is always in a trivenī. There is always a great temple; sacred pond; and a sacred forest.
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It is a Kalyāni like many other temple ponds. A Hindu temple is never alone. It is never just the creation of man. It is always in a trivenī. There is always a great temple; sacred pond; and a sacred forest.
#Hoysalatemples
2. Many Kalyāni like this are built in the mirror image of the temple; as the temple above as the temple pond below; Upside Down, if you will. It is because the Hindu universe repeats itself at many levels in sacred iterations. In micro and in macro.
3. And just like the temple contains the temple pond; the temple pond contains many temples. So it is not just repetition, not just iteration, but the inversion of the container and the contained. That which contains is also contained in what it contains.
1. Ṣri Veer Nārāyana Temple, Belāvādī, Karnātakā
One of the most exquisite of the Hoysala trikutas, this temple is a gem and one of a kind. It is a detached trikuta, with the main garbha-griha separated by three corridors from the other two.
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One of the most exquisite of the Hoysala trikutas, this temple is a gem and one of a kind. It is a detached trikuta, with the main garbha-griha separated by three corridors from the other two.
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2. It is blessed with this outer gopuram which is a unique offering in a Hoysala temple like this. It now houses the broken vigrahās.
3. The elephants outside the outer gopuram reminds one of the earlier Madhukeshwara temple at Banavasi. Right in front is the house of the pradhāna arćaka of the temple. Their family is here for at least 400 years.
