[Ketan]

Thanks Abhi,
This is really a nice place. I had been to a one day trip to this place last weekend. The place is really awsome. we spent sometime on Puja and then stated moving to each of the three sections of the temple with the guide, he was talking 5 differnt lingas in the temple and story behiend each of them, there is one story associated with every single thing you see, be it a pillar (each of them has diff story), a kitchen, shilpikars who made that temple, walls around, the dining plates carved on stones used by shilpkars, a paw mark of Sita and every thing..

The thing that I liked most is the ceiling of the entire temple – you can see the paintings on every ceilings of the temple, this is natural painting done by shilpkars and is the most important specimens of Vijaynagar pictorial art. These narrate events from the life of the patrons of this temple as well as episodes from the Mahabharatha and Ramayana. In one corner, the brothers Viranna and Virupanna are shown worshipping Shiva and Parvathi in the company of courtiers. These are of great interest, it also provides details of costumes of an era long gone by. Shiva's boar hunt and Arjuna's battles with his foes are amongst the many depicted here. The beauty of line and form, grace and movement really delighting.

This place is worth a visit.