English: This is a JPEG format plan and architectural drawing of a historic Indian temple or monument. An alternate SVG format (scalable vector graphics) version of this file – for web graphics, design studies, print, dynamic and interactive applications – has also been uploaded to wikimedia commons.

The drawing:

• Nandi is a small village about 8 kilometers southwest of Chikkaballapur, Karnataka and 55 kilometers northeast of Bengaluru. Nandi was a bigger and more prosperous town before the 14th-century. It was a part of a region in the eastern part of south Karnataka. one ruled by the Hindu Nolambas (Nolamba-Pallava) of Hemavati dynasty between 750 and 980 CE. They built several beautiful temples.

• The Bhoganandiswara temple (Bhoganandishwara, Bhoganandishvara) is the oldest known large monument in the ornate Nolambavadi style. It is actually a complex of shrines with a twin temple, the other is called the Arunachaleswara (Arunachaleshwara, Arunachaleshvara) temple. There are very similar temples, but with minor differences. Because of these differences, the Arunachaleswara temple was probably added a decade or two later, but not much more.

• Both temples are dedicated to Shiva. However, like most major historic Hindu temples all over India, they reverentially include artwork of Vaishnavism (for example, Narasimha, Vishnu), of Shaktism (for example, Durga, Lakshmi), and of Vedic deities (for example, Surya, Agni).

• Between the two temples is an intervening shrine dedicated to Umamahesvara.

• The temple has an elaborate mukha-mandapa. It illustrates a mature and ornate Dravidian architecture in Karnataka.

• This is the floor plan of the temple.

• The temple's architectural plan follows the square and circle principle found in historic Sanskrit texts.

• GPS location of the monument:

13° 23′ 12.5″ N, 77° 41′ 54″ E

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13.386806; 77.698333

• The relative scale and relative dimensions in this architectural drawing are close to the actual but neither exact nor complete. The plan illustrates the design and layout, but some intricate details or parts of the temple may not be shown. In cases where exact measurements were not feasible, the drawing uses best approximations and rounds the best measurements feasible.

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