File:Sambulingesvara temple, Keresanthe Karanataka.jpg

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Floor plan of one of the eight historic temples in Keresante village, Chikmagalur district

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English: This is a JPEG format plan and architectural drawing of a historic Indian temple or monument. An alternate SVG format (scalable vector graphics) version of this file – for web graphics, design studies, print, dynamic and interactive applications – has also been uploaded to wikimedia commons.

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  • Keresanthe (Kersante, Keresante, called Kereyasante in inscriptions) is now a small village northeast of Chikmagalur town, one between Kadur and Banavara. Before the 14th-century, it was a major town with at least eight temples – all in different stages of damage and ruins. These include the Lakshminarasimha temple, Ganesha temple, Isvara temple (partly apsidal), Trikutesvara temple (near the hill, three sanctums), Virabhadra temple, Sambhulingesvara temple (also three sanctums), and Janardana (east side of the village). Two Jain temples were also here, one for Adishvara and other for Parsvanatha. They were destroyed by the invasion and plunder by Delhi Sultanate forces from the north. Some of these temples were repaired during the Vijayanagara times, when panels and sections were recovered from the ruins and re-used. However, after the fall of the Vijayanagara empire, these temples once again were damaged and went into disuse. Many of these ruins, in the 2010s, are still scattered around and near the village.
  • This is the floor plan of the Sambhulingesvara temple.
  • The temple's architectural plan follows the square and circle principle found in historic Sanskrit texts.
  • GPS location of the monument:
13° 28′ 37″ N, 76° 07′ 50.2″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
  • 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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