The Amruteshvara temple also spelt as
"Amrutesvara" or "Amruteshwara" is located in the village
of Amruthapura, in Tarikere Taluk of the Chikkamagaluru district. The temple is
one among the few of the most beautifully preserved Hoysala temples. As per the
inscriptions found here, this temple was built around 1196 AD by Amruteshwara
Dandanayaka, an army general of the Hoysala king Ballala II.
This ekakuta design temple built according to
Hoysala architecture with a wide open mantapa, has an original outer wall with
unique equally spaced circular carvings. The temple has a closed mantapa (hall)
that connects the sanctum to the large open mantapa. The open mantapa has
twenty nine bays, and the closed mantapa has nine bays with a side porch that
leads to a separate shrine on the south side.
Archeological survey of India has placed some
of the artifices found at the temple on the parapet wall at equidistant places.
There are more than thirty artifices of same size and shape.
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