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:

• Marehalli is now a village about 50 kilometers east of Mysuru city, and about 110 kilometers southwest of Bengaluru city. It was a major town by the 10th-century and called Rajasraya Vinnagaram during the Chola era.

• This original core of the temple was built in the 10th-century. It was later expanded, renovated and restored during the Hoysala and Vijayanagara periods. The main entrance now is from the Vijayanagara era. The different parts of the temple and smaller shrines can be dated using the inscriptions found in this temple complex.

• The above drawing shows the floor plan of the main original Chola era temple expanded by the Hoysalas and restored by the Vijayanagara artisans, dedicated to Narasimha (man-lion) avatar of Vishnu. The mandapa of this temple is an extensive grid of pillars.

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

• GPS location of the monument:

  12° 21′ 53.4″ N, 77° 03′ 42.8″ E

  View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap

  12.364833; 77.061889

• 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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