{"id":14884,"date":"2023-09-19T08:19:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14884"},"modified":"2025-04-02T23:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:04:25","slug":"hoysala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hoysala\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysala"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysala:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas consist of\u00a0<strong>a collection of Hoysala temples.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These are built in the\u00a0<strong>12th-13th centuries<\/strong> and represented here by the three components of\u00a0<strong>Belur, Halebid and Somnathapura.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>three temples<\/strong> include;\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Chennakeshava temple:<\/strong> It is the main temple in the complex\u00a0<strong>at Belur<\/strong> (Hassan district), located at the centre of the traditional settlement which is surrounded by the remnants of a mud fort and a moat.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hoysaleswara Temple:<\/strong> It is on the banks of Dwarasamudra tank in\u00a0<strong>Halebidu<\/strong> (Hassan district), a town which has many protected and unprotected temples, archaeological ruins and mounds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Keshava Temple:<\/strong> It is at the centre of\u00a0<strong>Somanathapura village<\/strong> (Mysore district).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>These are primarily\u00a0<strong>dedicated to Hindu deities<\/strong> like Shiva and Vishnu, with some also devoted to the Jain faith.<\/li>\n<li>The Hoysala temples have a\u00a0<strong>basic Darvidian morphology<\/strong> but show strong influences of\u00a0<strong>the Bhumija mode widely used in Central India<\/strong>, the Nagara traditions of northern and western India, and the Karntata Dravida modes favoured by the Kalyani Chalukyas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features of the architecture:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Hoysala architects made considered and informed eclectic\u00a0<strong>selections of features from other temple typologies\u00a0<\/strong>which they further modified and then complemented with their own particular innovations.<\/li>\n<li>The Hoysala style was created through a careful selection of\u00a0<strong>contemporary temple features<\/strong> and those from the past to create a different identity from neighboring kingdoms.<\/li>\n<li>The shrines are characterized by\u00a0<strong>hyper-real sculptures and stone carvings<\/strong> that cover the entire architectural surface<strong>, a circumambulatory platform<\/strong>, a large-scale sculptural gallery, a multi-tiered frieze, and sculptures of the Sala legend.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who are Hoysalas?<\/h3>\n<p>The Hoysala dynasty was a medieval Indian dynasty that ruled over the Deccan region of southern India, primarily in the present-day Karnataka state, during the 10th to 14th centuries CE. The Hoysala Empire is known for its significant contributions to South Indian art, architecture, and culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/karnatakas-sacred-ensembles-of-hoysalas-inscribed-on-unesco-world-heritage-list-8945731\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Karnataka\u2019s sacred ensembles of Hoysalas inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas consist of a collection of Hoysala temples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}