Somanathapura Temple

Somanathapura (ಸೋಮನಾಥಪುರ) is a town located 35 km from the historic Mysore city in Mysore district, Karnataka state, India. Somanathapura is famous for the Chennakesava Temple (also called Kesava or Keshava temple) built by Soma, a Dandanayaka (commander) in 1268 CE under Hoysala Empire King Narasimha III, when the Hoysalas were the major power in South India. The Keshava temple is one of the finest and most complete examples of Hoysala architecture and is in a very well preserved condition. The temple is in the care of the Archeological Survey of India as a protected heritage site.This is strictly a Vaishnava temple and there are no depictions of any forms of the Hindu God. Inside the temple there are three Sanctums in the west, south and north where the deities are Keshava, Venugopala and Janardhana. There are inscriptions engraved on a slab standing at the entrance, inside the temple, dated from 1269 to 1550 A.D. that detail the construction of the temple and grants made to it. It is an ornately carved temple of magnificent craftsmanship depicting Vishnu, Lakshmi, Saraswathi, Ganesha, Rati Manmatha and Mahishasura. The ceilings and door jambs leading to the sanctum sanctorium are exquisitely carved. The material used for the temple is soapstone. According to the Mysore archaeological reports, it was built by the famous architect and sculptor Ruvari Malithamma who was well known for his expertise in ornamentation. The outer walls of all three shrines, their towers and Sukanasi are equally well decorated, making it overall a very well balanced design. The Ramayana is depicted on the friezes on the south wall, stories of the Hindu God Krishna on the rear and depictions from the epic Mahabharata on the north wall. The overall effect of the decorated towers, wall images and friezes is well balanced.

[@ledifortuna6559]

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[@jitendragoswami1251]

लाजवाब। इन मंदिरों का कोई मुकाबले नहीं।

[@Manjunath-ot8im]

Taj Mahal is nothing in front of this magnificent temple

[@doremon1670]

Manju Yogi rightly said

[@misterlova5260]

1000% correct.sorry those outsider came put their believe system n destroyed rich Nation.

[@TharsyanJaderuby]

Along with Kailasa, Ellora, Brighateeswara, Meenatchi, Srirangam, Hampi, Hoysaleswara, and many more temples. :D

[@akumarjmp]

It's an amazing architectural temple really visitable

[@sumithrasherla1890]

Yes

[@pavanmr6569]

ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ಚಿತ್ರಿಸಿದ್ದೀರಾ🙏🙏

[@umaghargi4765]

Beautiful, pride of Karnataka. Poet Kuvempu has rightly said " shileyallavi gudiyu, kaleya baleyu". But these temples needs wide publicity & should be included in tour programmes of South India of Travel Agencies . The travel agencies include temples of Tamil Nadu in South Indian tours. Those temples are only vastly built but sculpture is not comparable to Hoysala temples of Karnataka. Thank you for the nice video.

[@bgraghunatharao6185]

Excellent.

[@vicchenyo]

Ancient Indians were great builders. They have given the world monuments we can’t replicate even in the next millennium.

[@majhijamuna4227]

I Love Temple Very Nice

[@riffraff8020]

MAGNIFICIENT & SPELLBOUND. INDIA IS A SACRED & HOLY LAND HAS INFINITE TEMPLES OF RICH ARCHITECTURE. 2 EYES &MANY LIVES ARE NOT ENOUGH TO SEE THEM ALL. MAY LORD KEHAVA BLESS INDIA & ITS DEVOTEES. JAI BHARATH, JAI HIND & VANDE MATARAM

[@vasudevanvasu1853]

Unbelievable architecture. No words to say. Only: Excellent Excellent Excellent.

[@barbaricsoul6672]

Wow nice

[@janardanannair4616]

A temple with amazing stone Art work, well preserved, and worth visiting.

[@nancysotomayor3196]

Beatifully, another Amazing temple of India. Extraordinary. Advance high technology. I think they get the energy and science from Vimanas to make those marvelous temples

[@srinidhi7140]

ಅದ್ಭುತವಾದ ಸ್ಥಳ ❤️

[@saiyingpun7827]

This is a wonderful discovery.

[@seemabhattacharya7907]

Marvelous

[@devajyoti2753]

Rightly said

[@saralakumari2324]

We are proud of being as an indian.Rich culture, sculpture, heritage of India

[@michaels612]

Beautiful video

[@waltermuller1262]

Was there in Aug 1973

[@sahebdebnath4849]

Incredible India...this type of sculpture need more publicity

[@adhipmitra]

Fabulous.

[@kumudinidevigopireddy6533]

Wonderful Temple.... God is great and everywhere 🙏 Thank you bro 💐

[@ramachandramurtykrishnamse3025]

Simply beautiful.

[@manjunathbs3841]

Thank you for watching my video

[@yogesha39]

I

[@maheshjadhav2339]

या अदभूत शिल्पकलेला मानाचा मुजरा , अवर्णनीय

[@KVLu-yb5nh]

What a wonderful detailed images and stupas Incredible

[@2009nandu]

You are doing Excellent work Suneesha. We could spend our time in a better way durring this lockdown period. Every day we are going with you to different placeses, sitting in North America

[@anuradhavenugopal7190]

Architecture and sculpture of the highest order,this video is one of the most excellent coverage of such a beauty, definitely I shall visit this temple,it provides deep vision of how our kings had a deep thirst for creation of such Lovely and magnificent art,which could be never seen anywhere else in whole of India,Hats off to Hoysala Kings and the greatest visionary Sri Somnath chief of the then army, together with the capturer, the video man Manjunath without him ,it would have been impossible to see,this awesome structure.My heartful thanks to one and all to those behind this wonderful filming.

[@marisolanonbello130]

En un presente proximo visitare la india!!!¡Me gusta su gente y sus templos, me encantan

[@darshanreddy1911]

Beautiful KARNATAKA

[@anvithmanikya9649]

Recently i visted really its wonderful .speechless

[@prameelakotian39]

Awesome architecture, as Indian we must see this place.

[@T-iu5qw6kl2s]

GREAT TEMPLE .IT HAS GREAT ARTS. REAL WONDER IN THE WORLD.🌏 It is father 🌞🐯🦁 of arts. so Bharat is a great country.🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@sumithrasherla1890]

Very nice temple and video. Thank you brother.

[@sunilpatekar53]

Very nice place

[@user-se3kd2pf8q]

very nice

[@manjunathbs3841]

Thank you for watching my video.

[@user-qg9bm9pb1b]

This is our culture and history proud of our ancestors

[@nikhilnagarkar8561]

Amazing architecture! 👌👌👌 These "Hoysala Architecture" temples should be in the "7 wonders of the world" list! It's a pity that they aren't even in the UNESCO world heritage site list! (Only Chennakeshava Temple of Belur and Hoysaleshwar Temple of Halebeedu are nominated)

[@vigeshu5628]

Nice architecture

[@babubassa8434]

Carving so much of detail is not humanly possible.

[@ravindragour5144]

so beautiful, all these should be protected, their should be some barrier between these structures and the visitors

[@ratnakarchillal6269]

Change background music,,, Indian mantra is correct,,, Thanks,,,,, Jay shri Ram

[@jamilehbahaaaldine1201]

Wonderfull

[@ajeetmang2188]

Super Temple

[@saddy2611]

Utterly unimaginable that humans have created it with so much intricacy. Its a miracle how mughal and turkish invaders spared this beauty.

[@maderedipta2133]

😇🙏🙏🙏❤😍🌺🌴☀Noce 👌👍

[@babubassa8434]

Blessed are Indians

[@manjunathbs3841]

Thank you for watching my video

[@muralithulasiram1723]

super ancient architecture

[@mehulpatelmehulpatel5310]

Super temple

[@ksrguptakota7880]

Nice video, bro.

[@nvsubbarao5480]

Velu katta leni sampada mana purwikulu manaki vaarasatwamu ga vachhina e amulya maina banda garanni manam chala jaagrattaga kaapadukovali milanti adbhuta simple sampada literally unte vallu e kattadalani ento apurupamga chusukuntaaru

[@santoshgmankermanker1104]

👌👌👌my sanatan dharm💯 👌💪

[@surajbnarayan3015]

super

[@manjunathbs3841]

Thank you for watching my video

[@saajithsaajith744]

REALY WOUNDERFUL. MAN I DO SALUITE UR PASSION & I REALAZED THAT U DONE UR BEST TO EXPLORE. PLS... LETS DO EXPLORE OUR ANCIENT CAPACITY/ STAMINA.

[@latachaudhari3491]

The carving is marvalus

[@brahmastraff959]

Zoom jerker display kero

[@swethan9630]

👌🏻💐

[@misterlova5260]

Sorry what happened but this world never gets this people who build this magnificent structure. This knowledge gone with it when Persian destroyed university,and European put ban on to build new temple so this knowledge gone. Now we copy but not exactly.

[@misterlova5260]

@@arjun-iv4wr not only Islamic but Christianity too.

[@hbbabu4791]

How they were able to carve like this.??.. Iare they designs on silk saries or rocks??

[@michaelcoker3197]

Do not twirl the camera. No zoom!

[@jitendranathjohari8582]

Nice,but commentary was essential to understand clearly

[@rajeshraj-vw1wn]

Where located

[@gurudathkamath2406]

Mangaluru

[@durg_bharat797]

Thanks

[@srivatsaa.r.9936]

SOMANATHAPURA TEMPLE ---MANJUNATH SIR JUST WATCHED YR VIDEO ABOVE WHERE YOU HAVE TRIED YR BEST TO DOCUMENT IT THRO YR HIGHLY PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY. I COME FROM A PLACE VERY NEAR TO IT AND YR DESCRIBING IT AS ONE AMONGST THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD IS VERY VERY TRUE. BUT ALAS, YR VIDEO IS TOTALLY INCOMPLETE. YOU STATED RIGHT THAT THIS TEMPLE'S MAIN ATTRACTION ARE THE THREE FACES OF THE SAME GOD NAMELY JANARDHANA, KESHAVA AND VENUGOPALA AND ONLY THE BLESSED ONE'S ARE ABLE TO SEE IT IN ALL ITS GLORY. WHILE COVERING EVERYTHING, YOU HAVE MISSED/NOT SHOWN THESE THREE MAIN IDOLS IF THIS GREAT TEMPLE WHICH CONSTITUTES THE MAIN ATTRACTION OF THIS TEMPLE..HENCE I SAID YR DOCUMENTATION IS TOTALLY INCOMPLETE. THE VENUGOPALA PLAYING FLUTE IS THE ACTUAL ONE WHICH EARNS THIS TEMPLE AS A WONDER OF THIS WORLD. THE IDOL SIZE, BEAUTY, GLORY, IS UNIQUE AND YOU CANNOT SEE IT EVEN IN VAIKUNTA. UPON SEEING, YOU OR ANY ONE WILL BE AWE SYRUCK AND REALIZE THAT ONLY THE BLESSED ONE CAN ONLY WITNESS IT IN LIFE. YOU WILL EXPERIENCE THE DEVINE SHREE KRISNA AND THIS YOU CANNOT SEE IT NO WHERE ELSE IN INDIA. LET ME REPEAT ONLY THE BLESSED ONES WILL GET A CHANCE TO SEE IT IN THEIR LIFE TIME. VATSA BANGALORE

[@mruthunjayabms7134]

Beautiful.B.m.s.m.jaya

[@krishnakulkarni89]

Out of imagination

[@mruthunjayabms7134]

👌👌⭐🤝

[@sankethagm1403]

taj mahal has not having like these small small works ..it is much beter than tajmahal

[@govindfatik606]

Maximum hindu temples were ruined by muslim invedors, not only this but congress govt. highlighted only muslim monuments in the world.and defame hindu culture, architect,and hindus deleberatly.This was consperacy against hidus.

[@desimakkar1367]

Govind Fatik gang rapes pigs here spread hate again

[@doremon1670]

desi makkar all those are not somebody else's responsibility. People should also realise that all those are wrong, it's our own responsibility, not someone else's responsibility to live in a proper way and not get carried away by the rumors and hate speeches and others. We blame everything on govt, govt is not doing this or govt is not doing that, but what we are doing then ? We ourselves are not having awareness and knowledge that what is wrong and what is correct, then we should not Blame someone else for that.

[@bluekobra9906]

हिंदी वाला बैनर

[@prameelakotian39]

Awesome architecture, as Indian we must see this place.

[@srinidhi7140]

ಅದ್ಭುತವಾದ ಸ್ಥಳ ❤️