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Krauncha Giri

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Krauncha Giri is a small settlement in Karnataka, India, about 10 km from Sandur in Bellary District. [1]

37 relations: Agastya, Andhra Pradesh, Antarala, Badami Chalukya architecture, Ballari district, Bellary, Chalukya dynasty, Deccan Plateau, Dravidian architecture, Ganesha, Hindu temple, Hindu temple architecture, Indian Standard Time, Jyotirlinga, Kannada, Karnataka, Kartikeya, Kālidāsa, List of districts in India, Mahabharata, Mandapa, Mount Meru, Parashurama, Parvati, Postal Index Number, Rashtrakuta dynasty, Sanduru, Shiva, Skanda Purana, Srisailam Project (RFC) Township, States and union territories of India, Sukanasa, Tamil Nadu, Tehsil, Tharaka, Vesara, Vimana (architectural feature).

Agastya

Agastya was a revered Vedic sage of Hinduism.

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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh is one of the 29 states of India.

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Antarala

Antarala (Sanskrit: अन्तराल, lit. intermediate space) is a small antechamber or foyer between the garbhagriha (shrine) and the mandapa, more typical of north Indian temples.

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Badami Chalukya architecture

The Badami Chalukya architecture was a temple building idiom that evolved in the 5th – 8th centuries in the Malaprabha river basin, in present-day Bagalkot district of Karnataka state, under the Chalukya dynasty.

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Ballari district

Ballari (pronounced) is a district in Karnataka state, India.

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Bellary

Bellary, officially Ballari, in the eponymous Bellary district, is a major city in the state of Karnataka, India.

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Chalukya dynasty

The Chalukya dynasty was an Indian royal dynasty that ruled large parts of southern and central India between the 6th and the 12th centuries.

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Deccan Plateau

The Deccan PlateauPage 46, is a large plateau in western and southern India.

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Dravidian architecture

Dravidian architecture is an architectural idiom in Hindu temple architecture that emerged in the southern part of the Indian subcontinent or South India, reaching its final form by the sixteenth century.

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Ganesha

Ganesha (गणेश), also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, Pillaiyar and Binayak, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon.

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Hindu temple

A Hindu temple is a symbolic house, seat and body of god.

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Hindu temple architecture

Hindu temple architecture has many varieties of style, though the basic nature of the Hindu temple remains the same, with the essential feature an inner sanctum, the garbha griha or womb-chamber, where the primary Murti or the image of a deity is housed in a simple bare cell.

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Indian Standard Time

Indian Standard Time (IST) is the time observed throughout India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.

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Jyotirlinga

A Jyotirlinga or Jyotirlingam, is a devotional representation of the Supreme God Shiva.

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Kannada

Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Kannada people in India, mainly in the state of Karnataka, and by significant linguistic minorities in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa and abroad.

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Karnataka

Karnataka also known Kannada Nadu is a state in the south western region of India.

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Kartikeya

Kartikeya (IAST), also known as Murugan, Skanda, Kumara, and Subrahmanya, is the Hindu god of war.

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Kālidāsa

Kālidāsa was a Classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language of India.

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List of districts in India

A district (zilā) is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory.

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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Mandapa

Mandapa (also spelled mantapa or mandapam) in Indian architecture is a pillared outdoor hall or pavilion for public rituals.

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Mount Meru

Mount Meru (Sanskrit: मेरु, Tibetan: ཪི་རྒྱལ་པོ་རི་རབ་, Sumeru, Sineru or Mahameru) is the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes.

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Parashurama

Parashurama (Sanskrit: परशुराम, IAST: Paraśurāma, lit. Rama with an axe) is the sixth avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism.

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Parvati

Parvati (Sanskrit: पार्वती, IAST: Pārvatī) or Uma (IAST: Umā) is the Hindu goddess of fertility, love and devotion; as well as of divine strength and power.

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Postal Index Number

A Postal Index Number or PIN or PIN code is a code in the post office numbering or post code system used by India Post, the Indian postal administration.

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Rashtrakuta dynasty

Rashtrakuta (IAST) was a royal dynasty ruling large parts of the Indian subcontinent between the sixth and 10th centuries.

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Sanduru

Sanduru (often written Sandur) is a town in Bellary District in the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Shiva

Shiva (Sanskrit: शिव, IAST: Śiva, lit. the auspicious one) is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.

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Skanda Purana

The Skanda Purana (IAST: Skanda Purāṇa) is the largest Mahāpurāṇa, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts.

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Srisailam Project (RFC) Township

Srisailam Project (RFC) Township is a census town in Kurnool district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

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States and union territories of India

India is a federal union comprising 29 states and 7 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.

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Sukanasa

In Hindu temple architecture a sukanasa (शुकनास, IAST: śukanāsa) or sukanasi is an external ornamented feature over the entrance to the garbhagriha or inner shrine.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (• tamiḻ nāḍu ? literally 'The Land of Tamils' or 'Tamil Country') is one of the 29 states of India.

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Tehsil

A tehsil (also known as a mandal, taluk, taluq or taluka) is an administrative division of some countries of South Asia.

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Tharaka

Tharaka (Pronounced Thaa-ra-ka) was a mythological king from Sri Lanka.

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Vesara

Vesara is one of a number of terms for a distinct stylistic tradition of Indian Hindu temple architecture primarily used in the Deccan and Central India, between the Vindhyas and the river Krishna (VK Agnihotri, Indian History, p. B-34).

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Vimana (architectural feature)

Vimana is the structure over the garbhagriha or inner sanctum in the Hindu temples of South India and Odisha in East India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krauncha_Giri

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