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Belavadi, Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka · 13.2820°, 75.9961°
A three-shrined Hoysala temple completed around 1200 under Veera Ballala II, with the central sanctum holding Veeranarayana and flanking shrines for Yoga-Narasimha and Venugopala. Its stellate plan and Vesara superstructures make it one of the larger surviving Hoysala trikuta layouts.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
Local tradition traces the village to the Mahabharata, holding that the Pandava prince Bhima killed the demon Bakasura here and delivered the settlement.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Hoysala
Answers only from cited records
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