Basaralu Mallikarjuna Temple

Basaralu Mallikarjuna Temple is located in Baresalu Village, Mandya Taluk, Mandya District, Karnataka State. This temple is dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. The temple was built by Harihara Dhannayaka around 1234 AD during the reign of King Vira Narasimha II of the Hoysala Empire.

Basaralu Mallikarjuna Temple is about 124 km from Bangalore. It is about 26 km from Mandya city and 70 km from Mysore city. Mandya is the nearest railway station at a distance of 26 km.

Basaralu Mallikarjuna Temple is open daily from 09 am to 05 pm.

The plan of this temple is tripartite design. But only in the middle there is a superstructure and sukhanasi. The three temples are connected by a common hall, which is unique in mixing the characteristics of an open and a closed hall. The side temples are directly connected to the hall, while the central temple has a mantapa connecting the sanctum sanctorum to the hall.

The temple stands on a platform called Jagati, a feature common to many Hoysala temples. There is a decorative plan and mantapa painting on the walls of the shrines, there are two roofs around the temple. The wall panel paintings are of a quality of workmanship found in the more famous temples at Belur and Halebidu. The first heavy roofs run below the superstructure and around the temple with a projection of about half a meter. The second roof runs one meter lower than the first around the temple. Between the two eaves are miniature decorative towers on pilasters. Below the second eaves is a wall panel depicting Hindu deities and their attendants.

Below this, there are six rectangular moldings of equal width at the base. Starting from the top, the friezes are swans (birds) in the first frieze, Makara (aquatic monsters) in the second, epics and other stories in the third, lions in the fourth, horses in the fifth and elephants at the bottom.

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