Adichunchagiri Hills

Mayasandra is a village in Turuvekere taluk in Tumkur District in Karnataka State in India. The place is one of the pancha-gramas (five settlements) of the Hebbar Shrivaishnavas[1] and has an old temple of Mayamma which is revered by the Bestas and a Shakti temple of Koollapuradamma, and a granite Jain temple of Parshwanath. The Lake of Mayasandra a big lake in the taluk.

The Mahadeshvara temple is on a hillock nearby at a distance of about 3 km. The temple of Varadaraja of the Hoysala period is at Ramasagara which is about 4 km from this village.

This village is one among villages planned by mysore kingdom

References

  1. ↑ Mysore India State (1969), Mysore State Gazetteer: Tumkur District, Printed by the Director of Print., Stationery and Publications at the Govt. Press, p. 88

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