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BHARATH

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Friday, February 16, 2001 7:48 AM

karnataka-temples

 

 

For those interested , I would like to present this write up about Vaisnavaite

temples in Karnataka .

 

PART-1

 

Karnataka has about 600 odd temples following the southern Vaisnavaite

tradition..

both Pancharatra and Vaikhanasa ..

 

none come under the divyadesam list , possibly because the Alwars lived and

composed between the 6th and 9 th centuries , whereas most of the above temples

were built from the 9th century onwards.

 

A lot of them follow the Hoysala style of architecture built between the 10 th

and the 14th centuries by the hoysalas . most others have the traditional

dravidian style .

 

of the 600 odd temples about 60 odd may be considered of special interest wrt

size , fame , importance , popularity , art , architecture, religoius importance

etc .

 

of the 60 , about half a dozen , ie aprrox 1% of the total are well known .

these are Melukote , Udupi , Srirangapatna, Belur ,Somnatpur, & Viranarayana

-Belavadi. Udupi as most know , follows the Madhva tradition.

 

over 90% of the temples are completely neglected and in a bad financial state .

in a few decades , most of them in villages will not have Sri Vaisnava priests

since the community is shrinking and rapidly migrating to greener pastures.

 

hopefully at least the 60 best temples along with ritual tradition will be

preserved .Even this is going to be very difficult.

 

I will write in a another post about the locations of these temples if someone

is interested in visiting them.

 

For those visiting Bangalore city ,

Bangalore city has about a dozen temples ,needless to say ,all doing ok

financially ,all of them have been built in the last 300 years . ( the city

itself was founded in 1537) some of which are

 

1. Fort Srinivasa temple near city market ( built 1695 AD )

2. Ranganatha temple (ballurpete)

3. Tulsi thotta (old city )

4. Krishna temple Malleswaram 11th cross

5. Vasantha Vallabha temple Vasantapura

6. Srinivasa temple mahalaksmi layout

7. Narasimha temple , temple rd , Malleswaram

8. Andavan ashramam temple P.G halli

9. Andavan ashramam Rangamannar temple Jayanagar.

10. Srinivasa temple , Banashankari

11. Srinivasa temple ,Jayanagar.

 

outside bangalore

 

12. Champaka dhama temple ( Damodara perumal ) Bannerghatta 12 km from city ,

built 1257 AD.

 

 

any mistakes I have made in the above write up, please let me know , and please

excuse me .

 

Bharath alias Asuri Venkatanarasimhan.