Ishvara Temple, Arasikere
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The Ishvara temple, also referred to as the Ishwara or Isvara temple, is an early 13th-century Hindu temple in Arsikere, Hassan district, Karnataka India. Dedicated to Shiva, it is one of the most notable early Hoysala architecture examples with a rotating circular plan, a domed mandapa with 16-point star shape, a pancatala vimana, and a galaxy of artwork depicting Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism and Vedic legends of Hinduism.[1][2]
Isvara temple at Arsikere | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Hinduism |
District | Hassan |
Deity | Shiva |
Location | |
Location | Arsikere |
State | Karnataka |
Country | India |
Geographic coordinates | 13°19′06″N 76°15′36″E |
Architecture | |
Type | Hoysala |
Creator | unknown, Narasimha II |
Completed | c. 1220 CE |
The Ishvara temple was one among a complex of many Hindu temples in Arasikere. Most of these and their artwork were destroyed and mutilated in or after the 14th-century. Along with the Ishvara temple, a simpler and more damaged double temple (Shivalaya) survives and is to the immediate north of the Ishvara temple within the current compound. This double temple has red-stone pillars. About 200 meters to the southwest of the Ishvara temple is the Sahasrakuta Jinalaya – a ruined and mutilated monument of Jainism.[3]
The Ishvara temple is protected as a monument of national importance by the Archaeological Survey of India.[4]