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:

• This temple is in Nagalapura, a village in Tumkur district, Karnakata. It is about 12 kilometers south of Turuvekere town and about 120 kilometers west of Bengaluru city. This temple should not be confused with many other beautiful Chennakesava temples in south Karanataka, including the one in Turuvekere town.

• This is the floor plan of the Chennakesava temple, a Vaishnava temple in Nagalapura. It illustrates the Hoysala architecture in the ekakuta style. It is intricately carved outside and inside with artwork depicting gods, goddess and Hindu legends from the Vedas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Puranas.
• The temple's architectural plan follows the square and circle principle found in historic Sanskrit texts.

• GPS location of the monument:

  13° 05′ 13.2″ N, 76° 41′ 27.4″ E

  View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap

  13.087000; 76.690944

• Nagalapura village has another major Hindu temple, dedicated to Shiva (Kedareshwara Temple, Nagalapura‎). Both the Chennakesava temple and Kedareshwara temple are damaged and defaced, one of many victims to the post-12th-century Sultanates raids and conquest of southern Karnataka.

• 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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