26th January 2019.
After the Visit to Kambadahalli Panchakoota Basadi, a Jain temple, we proceeded to Hale Budanur. It was to that there are Vishnu and Shiva Temples built by the Hoysala Dynasty.
The presiding Deity : Sri Someswara
The salient features of this temple are….
The Temple is facing east with a Garuda Gamba with a stellate planned structure. It is an ekakuta temple and has vesara vimana. It has a garbhagriha, sukanasi, navaranga and mukhamantapa, which are completely missing today. However the whole temple was in ruins, presently it is being re-constructed looks like new. The walls and interiors are less ornamented but contains usual architectural features. The main doorway has usual shaiva dwarapalas on either sides. Inside the navaranga, there are five niches once had different Gods like Ganesha, Saptamatrika, Surya, Kumara Vishnu. Now kept outside.
INSCRIPTIONS:
An inscription engraved on the left side of a stone in the Somesvara temple at Hale - Badanur, Mandya Taluk, records a grant during Rana Gana 's reign. It is curious that the remaining three sides of this stone contain the Tamil historic introduction usually found in the inscriptions of Rajendra Chola engraved in Kannada characters. It is dated in the 13th year of Rajendra Chola –I, in 1024 A.D., without mentioning any grant. And the inscription of Rakkasa Ganga on the fourth side, which is engraved in identical characters, the natural inference would be that the whole formed one inscription, Rakkasa - Ganga acknowledging the suzerainty of Rajendra Chola-I, before making his own grant. But the period of Rakkasan - Ganga, according to some inscriptions (sec Coorg 4, of 97? A.). is earlier by nearly 30 years than that of Rajendra Chola, We have therefore to suppose that either there were two Rakkas: Gangas or only one who lived on to at least 1024. A.D. This supposition derives support from the fact that Rakkaasan - Gangai 's ( younger brother' s ) daughter Chattala - Devi was married in about 1040 to a Kaduvetti (Nagar 35, of 1077 AD).
There is also a room for supposing that the engraver, finding no more space on the stone, may have continued the inscription on a second stone. But in the first place, it is very unlikely that he would select a stone which had already been inscribed for he engraving a record of the ruling King. Secondly, not only is there no other inscribed stone at the place but there is space left Vacant on the side of the stone on which the engraver could have been very well utilized for the continuation of the inscription if it was his intention to do so. As he has not done so, we may perhaps conclude that the Tamil portion was intended as a preamble to the inscription of Rakkasa - Ganga on the remaining side of the Stone. The Tamil portion is considered when speaking of Rajendra Chola under the section relating to the Chozhas. The other portion , which is in Kannada with the first three lines mostly defaced, records that during the rule of . . . Rajadhiraja Paramesvara Nandligiri –natha Jayaduttaranga Rakkasa-Ganga_Paramanadigal, Chavayya and Jayamma of Budanur made a grant of Land ( specified ) for the Tank caused to be built by Sovarasi-Bhataraka, renowned for the practice of the ashtangayoga.
HOW TO REACH :
Hale Budanur is about 12.4 KM from Mandya and 65 KM from Mysuru
LOCATION:CLICK HERE
re-constructed temple
Inscription
---OM SHIVAYA NAMA---
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