File:Chennakesava temple, Honnavara Karnataka.jpg

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• Honnavara is now a small village about 20 kilometers northeast of Hassan city in Karnataka. It is an important regional capital and town in its history. It and the nearby region is home to the ruins of twenty Hindu temples from pre-13th century (for secondary source, please see the Annual Report of the Mysore Archaeological Department 1926, page 4). All temples were in a state of complete neglect in early 20th-century. Since then, from these, seven temples have been partially restored.

• The above restored Chennakesava temple is dedicated to Vishnu avatar, and it is not to be confused with the more famous and more visited temple with the same name in Belur or Chennakesava temples in many other places of South India.

• The temple is intricately carved with images and statues of Kesava, Narayana, Madhava, Vishnu, Trivikrama, Vamana, Sridhara, Hrishika, Padmanabha, Damodara, Sankarshna, Vasudeva, Aniruddha, Purushottama, Narasimha, Janardana, Varaha, Manmatha, Venugopala, Govardhanadhari, and others. Scenes from the Hindu epics are depicted, as are scenes celebrating in Hindu theology around Dharma, Artha and Kama.

• The temple's architectural plan follows the square and circle principle found in historic Sanskrit texts.

• GPS location of the monument:

  13° 07′ 18.9″ N, 76° 10′ 34.2″ E

  View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap

  13.121917; 76.176167

• The relative scale and relative dimensions in this architectural drawing are close to the actual but neither exact nor complete. The plan illustrates the design and layout, but some intricate details or parts of the temple may not be shown. In cases where exact measurements were not feasible, the drawing uses best approximations and rounds the best measurements feasible.

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