LEPAKSHI TEMPLE, ANDHRA PRADESH INDIA


 Lepakshi Is a village in the Anantapur District of Andhra PradeshIndia. It is located 15 km (9.3 mi) east of Hindupur and approximately 120 km (75 mi) north of Bangalore The lepakshi temple build in 1336–1646. It is build by the greatest Vijayanagara King. The Specialty of this temple is the paintings on the roof are made with natural pigments. A pigment is a material that changes the colour of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength-selective absorption. 

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Near the temple complex is a large granite Nandi bull , Hillock known as Kurma Saila, "tortoise shaped hill", are other temples to Papanatheswara,  RaghunathaSrirama, and Durga and Lepakshi is also famous for puppet show based on Hindu mythology.    Built in the 16th century, the architectural features of the temple are in the Vijayanagara style with profusion of carvings and paintings at almost every exposed surface of the temple. It is one of the centrally protected monumemts of national importance.[1] The fresco paintings are particularly detailed in very bright dresses and colours with scenes of Rama and Krishna from the epic stories of the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Puranas and they are well preserved. There is a very large Nandi(bull), mount of Shiva, about 200 metres (660 ft) away from the temple which is carved from a single block of stone, which is said to be one of the largest of its type in the world.

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