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Early modern · Hindu · India
Arakeshwara Temple, Haleyedatore
Hale Yedatore, Karnataka · 12.4600°, 76.3900°
Arakeshwara (Shiva)WodeyarDravidian
Sacred since
1100 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
present complex early 19th c. (Wodeyar); 12th c. origin
Wodeyar
History & significance
A Shiva temple on the Kaveri whose origins go back to the era of Kulottunga Chola I, with the present Dravidian complex - gopura and pillared mukhamantapa - endowed by Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III according to B. Lewis Rice. It is now a protected monument of the Archaeological Survey of India.