Bhoga Nandishwara Temple

Few more pics from Bhoga Nandishwara Temple

Bhoga Nandishwara Temple

A temple pond refered to as Kalyani at Bhoga Nandishwara temple near Nandi hills, Bangalore.

Laxmi Narsimha

This is the largest monolithic status in Hampi. You will see the form of Narsimha sitting on coiled 7 headed snake, Sesha, the 7 headed snake forming a hood over him. Quite often the statue is refered to as Ugra Narsimha, but the original statue had Laxmi the gods consort sitting on his lap. The statue was badly damaged sometime during the downfall of Vijayanagara empire and the status of Laxmi has been missing ever since. The only clue of its existence is, we can still a broken arm resting on Narsimhas left arm(visible on the right side in the pic).

If you think it looks majestic now,  please do keep in mind that the statue was damaged severly. What you see now is what has been assembled back in the recent past, you will see some shoddy cement work here and there if you look closer. Just imagine how beautiful this may have been before it was destroyed. 

Just to give a sense of how huge the statue actually is, here is a pic to give you some point of reference.

Sasivekalu Ganesha

Magnificent view of the Sasivekalu ganesha Temple located on Hemakutta hills in Hampi. Called as the Sasivekalu(Mustard Seed) Ganesha due to resemblance with the Sasivekalu, this was built by local merchant some time in early 1500. The monolith statue is close to 2.4 meters in length and has an open pavilion unlike the other temple close by.

The below pic was taken during a different time

Shikara

Shikara of Kashivisvanatha temple, Pattadakal

Nataraja

Nataraja with 18 arms. One of the most notable sculptures in Badami is this 18 armed lord Shiva. Pick any combination of his left and right arm and you get a dance mudra. It depicts a total of 81 mudras of Bharatanatyam dance. Amazing artistry of Chalukyas! 

A glimpse of Pattadakal

A beautiful sculpture of Lord Shiva on the walls of a temple at Pattadakal, a UNESCO heritage site.