This is one of the most beautiful temples that I have visited which were built by Hoysalas. One of the best part of the temple is the start shaped mukhamantapa which is the front part of the temple. There are 21 pillars in the mukhamantapa and it is adorned with beautiful elephants below every seat inside. Due to many invasions many parts of the temple has been destroyed and this is really bad and I personally felt how barbaric of the invaders were! Even if the temples were are restored and renovated the original beauty of it cannot be shown to people. The main deity of this temple is Lord Shiva and this is trikootachala temple where you get to see 3 shiva lingams and 3 nandis and 3 ganeshas. It is really a magnificent temple with intricate carvings around it and inside too. The main part of the Hoysala style of architecture was their emblem Sala fighting a lion, which they used to carve on top of the mantapa was missing here, as it may be destroyed by the muslim invasions. There were many veeragallus that dated back to the Hoysala dynasty that described the bravery and valor, which have been destroyed and ruined by barbaric islamic invasions.
This is one of the most visited place in Arsikere as it is easily accessible and the road is very good to travel to this place. It is around 138 kms from Mysore and it will take 3 and half hours to travel. These historical monuments are wealth of our nation and has to be preserved for our next generations too. Hope you too enjoy travelling to this temple
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