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I visited Hampi a couple of weeks ago.
The place is magical and has many important monuments regarding Hinduism and especially Ramayana.
Below are some important temples and places in the divine land.
#Hampi #Karnataka

Hampi is a land of huge rocks
Loads of huge rocks are placed naturally that seems like humans placed them but they are not.
They form the natural boundary of Hampi the capital of the great Vijayanagara empire.

The first major temple ruins In Hampi
Carvings and sculptures are the most beautiful thing in Hampi.
Carvings of various gods mostly Vishnu avatars and lord Hanuman are the most common in temples
Temples are build on huge and big number of pillars
Barely any temple is functioning

The much revered kamadhenu
Seating for any religious or cultural activities.
The eeriness
The dhwajasthambh
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#Hinduism

Bath of KrishnaDevaRayas girlfriend
And the Queens bath

One of the many sculptures of the lord Vishnu with shankh chakra.
Museum didn't allow clicking pics.
Sculptures of Vishu, Durga, Hanuman Bhairav are common
Anjanadri, the hill believed to be lord Hanuman's birthplace.
Scenic beauty of Hampi

The pampa sarovar where maa parvati is believed to mediate for Lord Shiva they are said to be married at the Virupaksha temple in Hampi.
Paddy and banana planotations are galore as Brahmaputra flows by

Various carving on Navami dibba, the high seat of King KrishnaDevaRaya during festivals.
You can see various carvings of his wives Chinna devi and Tirumala Devi.
4 different colored stones are used from the four different states won by Devaraya each stone represents a state.

The ruins of the Royal court and palace.
The stone pipelines used by them to divert water were functioning till recently.
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The beautiful Tungabhadra with various ruins In it and at its shore

The wells water was used to worship deities.
Mahalakshmi's Yantra was engraved In the stones.
It was buried under sand until recently one wonders how many hundreds of marvels await to be discovered in #Hampi
Communal stone plates for soldiers to eat they sound like metal.

The hazarrama temple called so because it has a thousand carvings depicting various scenes from the Ramayana.
It was built buy the king on the occasion on his child's birth.
Only royals were allowed in the temple
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Heartbreaking to see the doors of the garbhagriha shut
Overwhelming to think what it might have been in it's full glory.
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Ugra and yoga narasimha in one.
Tirumala devi fighting.
Carvings depicting trade at that time etc.

The submerged Shiva temple built after a victory in a war.
Was scary
Nandi in the pic

The famous Badawi linga somehow survived the onslaught of Sultanate muslims.
Yoga Narasimha, Laxmi Narasimha and Ugra Narasimha all in one moorti damaged by Barbarians
You can see the hand of Maa laxmi on the left side of Narasimha
It's a monolithic structure
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The Ganapati
A seeds businessman built it with an aim to build a bigger temple than his brother.
Nandi facing Virupaksha temple
And the Virupaksha temple
I couldn't go in it for some reasons
Next time

Hampi from the other side of the river.
That's the Sabari's ashram where she fed rama fruits.
Shri Rama k charan

So far we have seen temples and monuments belonging to 13th 14th centuries now we'll see monuments and temples belongings to Treta yuga
Entrance of the kingdom of Vali and the water body belonging to the same age.
The place where shri Ram killed Vali is here too

The famed weekly bazaar of Vijayanagara where jewels and diamonds were sold in sers,a Unit of measurement

The immensely beautiful Vijaya Vitthala temple!
The beauty of this temple cannot be described In words every carving every sculpture tells you stories
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The musical pillars.
Naga carving.
One of the sculptures telling what qualities a king needs to win a war.
A platform for marriages.
It was a royal temple too

The model of the temple.
The agama Shastra of the temple carved In a mixture of telugu and Kannada

Of course the stone chariot that Devaraya saw in Odisha when we went to war there and came back to Vijayanagara and ordered it to be built here.
He fell in love with the kings daughter Jaganmohini, who came to kill him n married her
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Fin.

Malyavanta Rahunata temple
The place where Shri Rama meditated on Lord Shiva during exile, that's exactly the hill under which he meditated
The place where Laxman hit an arrow to get water for Lord Ram for pooja
There's always water In this place, always!

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