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.

The drawing:

• Nuggehalli is a village about 50 kilometers east of Hassan city, Karnataka (NH75, SH47). This major Hoysala era Vishnu temple is found on the western side of the village.

• The floor plan of the entire Hindu temple complex – main temples and smaller shrines with prakara – is shown above.

• The Lakshminarasimha temple is a trikuta temple built during the reign of Hoysala Somesvara. The main temple has three sanctums, one with Kesava in the west, another with Lakshmi Narasimha in north, while the third southern side sanctum has Venugopala.

• The main temple is on a raised platform. The mandapa was added and later restored after this town and temple became victims of the Sultanate raids and damage. Some artwork is therefore from the later centuries such as those of Vijayanagara Empire.

• Like major Hindu temples, the temple includes major panels dedicated to Shaivism and Shaktism. Intricately carved, though damaged, images of Sarasvati, Durga and Harihara (half Shiva, half Vishnu) are found here. Extensive artworks on the walls present legends from the Vedas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Bhagavata Purana.

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

• GPS location of the monument:

  13° 00′ 39.5″ N, 76° 28′ 31.5″ E

  View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap

  13.010972; 76.475417

• 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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