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Treking adventure Apart from being an draw a bead oning lensman. Sundar Palaniappan loves to make trekking in the Himalayan Ranges and other mind-boggling treks in Garhwal and Kumaon parts of Uttarakhand. HimachalPradesh. Sikkim and Nepal. Some of the exposure galleries of India
Sundar Palaniappan’s involvement in the art of picture taking took him to Hampi ( VijayaNagar ) . Badami. Aihole ( first capital of early Chalukyas ) . Pattadakal. Madurai. Kancheepuram. Darasuram. Mahabalipuram and other historical topographic points in India. Apart from bettering these images of Temples and other historically of import topographic points of India. Sundar Palaniappan is be aftering to host images of other topographic points of India by sing them. You could happen the complete list of galleries in the archives link.
Cheluva Narayana temple or Thirunarayana temple – Melkote
Melkote is located in the Pandavapura taluk of Mandya territory. Karnataka. India. It is 51kms from Mysore. Melkote houses an ancient temple Cheluva Narayana ( a. k. a. Thirunarayana ) which is dedicated to lord Vishnu. Reaching from Mysore
One could catch a direct coach from KSRTC coach base Mysore. Otherwise. one could catch the Mysore – Tumkur coach and could make Jakkanahalli crossing and could catch either a coach or a shared auto-rickshaw. Melkote is 6kms from Jakanahalli traversing. 14 old ages of stay by SriVaishnava saint – Sri Ramanujacharya
Melkote or Melukote ( high or superior garrison ) is one of the principal sacred topographic points in the province. The topographic point is besides known as Tirunarayanpura. Early in the 12” century AD the great Srivaishnava saint SriRamanujaCharya stayed here for 14 old ages. It therefore became a outstanding centre of the Srivaishnava religious order.
Hoysala king Vishnuvardhana who had become a follower of Ramanuja charya granted the fertile land as ashta-gramas on the Bankss of river cauvery.
Thirunaryana Temple The Narayana temple ( besides called as Tirunarayana temple ) . has a chief unit consisting of a garbhagriha and an ardhamandapa amidst a narrow pillared corridor a mahamandapa and a little mukhamandapa all in east – west orientation. There is a big courtyard surrounded by the prakara hall.
The chief divinity of the temple is the beautiful image of CheluvaNarayana ( Vishnu ) of Hoysala craft. The utsava murthi which is a metallic image stand foring the chief divinity is called Cheluva-pilleraya whose original name was Ramapriya. Vaira-mudi or Vajramukuta
A crown set with cherished gems known as Rajamudi was presented to this temple by Raja Wodeyar ( 1578 – 1617 ) of Mysore celebrity. Krishnaraja Wodeyar III ( 1799 – 1868 ) of same Mysore celebrity besides presented a crown set with cherished rocks. known as Krishnaraja Mudi. Apart from these Crowns. Vairamudi or Vajramukuta. another Crown of great value. seems to be older than Raja mudi and Krishnaraja-mudi and it is non known who gave it to the temple. Raya gopura
Raya gopura. which is besides known as Gopalaraya entryway. is an uncomplete construction taking to the hill. It has four tall pillars and has no tower above it. Pattadakal is a little town located in the Bagalkot territory of North Karnataka and lies on the Bankss of Bankss of the Malaprabha River. Pattadakal is located 22 kilometer from Badami ( aka Vatapi in the ancient times ) and about 10 kilometers from Aihole. Pattadakal ( harmonizing to the letterings it was known as the Pattada – Kisuvolal during the ancient times ) . where the male monarchs of early Chalukyas of modern twenty-four hours Karnataka. used to be crowned. was one of the three great Centres of experimentation in temple building. The other two being Badami and Aihole.
It is here that the Rekha – Nagara prasada and Dravida Vimana manners of Indian temple architecture were given their concluding signifier.
The Papanatha. Kashi Visvesvara. Jambulinga and Galaganatha temples noted for their curvilineal shikhara represent the former manner. while Mallikarjuna. Sangameshwara and Virupaksha temples holding a square roof of withdrawing grades. represent the ulterior temple manner of Dravidian temple edifice. The Lokeshwara ( Virupaksha ) and Trailokeshwara ( Mallikarjuna ) built severally by Lokamahadevi and Trailokamahadevi. the Queenss of Vikramadithya II. to mark the Chalukyan triumph over the Pallavas of Kanchi. A brick pillared mandapa of the late Satavahana period ( 3rd – 4th century Ad ) laid bare in forepart of the Sangameshwara temple in 1970 Ad by the ASI ( Archaeological Survey of India ) marks the earliest efforts to construct temples at Pattadakal. The latest one being the Jaina temple of the Rashtrakuta period ( 9th century AD ) .
