High medieval · Hindu · India

Ishvara Temple, Arasikere

Arasikere, Hassan, Karnataka · 13.3181°, 76.2604°

Shiva (linga known as Kattamesvara)HoysalaHoysala

Sacred since

1220 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

c. 1220 (Hoysala)

Hoysala

History & significance

A Hoysala-period Shiva temple raised around 1220 under Narasimha II, notable for an unusually complex plan in which a sixteen-pointed star-shaped hall is joined to a five-storeyed vimana. Its outer walls carry roughly 120 relief panels drawing on Shaiva, Vaishnava, Shakta and Vedic subject matter.

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