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Karnataka pilot · 15 temples
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Chamundeshwari Temple, Chamundi HillHilltop temple of Mysuru’s patron goddess, Nada Devi of Karnataka, and the heart of Dasara.
Sri Krishna Matha, UdupiMadhvacharya’s Krishna shrine, seen only through a nine-holed window and served in turn by eight mathas.
Virupaksha Temple, HampiShiva as Virupaksha, Pampapati, in continuous worship since the seventh century at the heart of Hampi.
Kukke Subramanya TempleKartikeya as Subrahmanya, lord of serpents, on the Kumaradhara river beside Kumara Parvata.
Sri Manjunatha Temple, DharmasthalaA Shiva temple served by Vaishnava priests and administered by a Jain family, with the Dharma Daivas.
Mookambika Temple, KollurThe goddess Mookambika and a jyotirlinga of Shiva and Shakti, below Kodachadri in the Western Ghats.
Mahabaleshwar Temple, GokarnaHome of the Atmalinga, Shiva’s own linga, which devotees may touch; one of Karnataka’s seven Muktisthalas.
Murudeshwar TempleA seaside Shiva temple of the Atmalinga legend, with a 20-storey gopura and a giant Shiva.
Chennakeshava Temple, BelurVishnuvardhana’s Hoysala masterpiece to the “handsome Keshava”, the one great Hoysala temple never abandoned.
Hoysaleswara Temple, HalebiduTwin Shiva shrines for King Vishnuvardhana and Queen Shantala in the old Hoysala capital, unfinished and no longer in worship.
Sharadamba Temple, SringeriThe goddess Sharada at the first of Adi Shankara’s four Amnaya Peethams, on the Tunga river.
Yellamma Temple, SaundattiThe hilltop shrine of Renuka Yellamma, one of the Deccan’s great goddess pilgrimages.
Ranganathaswamy Temple, SrirangapatnaVishnu reclining on Adisesha on an island in the Kaveri: Adi Ranga, first of the Pancharanga shrines.
Virupaksha Temple, PattadakalQueen Lokamahadevi’s eighth-century Chalukya temple, model for Ellora’s Kailasa and still in worship.
Kasivisvesvara Temple, LakkundiA Kalyani Chalukya double shrine of Shiva and Surya, the high-water mark of Chalukyan decorative carving.