High medieval · Hindu · India

Someshvara Temple, Haranhalli

Haranhalli, Hassan district, Karnataka · 13.2474°, 76.2263°

Someshvara (Shiva)HoysalaVesara (Hoysala)

Sacred since

1230 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

c. 1234 (Hoysala)

Hoysala

History & significance

One of the two surviving major temples of Haranhalli, completed in the 1230s by the Heggade brothers Peddanna, Sovanna and Kesanna, with a single stellate sanctum and an enclosed circumambulation path in mature Vesara form. More damaged than the neighbouring Lakshminarasimha temple, it keeps notable relief panels and is a protected monument of the Archaeological Survey of India.

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