On a quiet evening on a small hillock in Malnad, I felt a chill go down my spine while thinking that Chandra Gupta Maurya may well have spent the last days of his glorious Jain life in that very place. Imagine that!
Itinerary:
Saturday: Bus to Channarayapatna and thence to Belagola. Try the home-made jain food. Its delicious. Stay the night in Hassan.
Sunday: Halebeedu and Belur.
5 comments:
awesome photographs.
Ya the three make a nice trip. we visited these places on a lovely rainy day. Sravanabelagola is not unlike gomateshwara except the height of the monolith. I like the immense similarity between the two places. but halibedu was brilliant. in fact what was most interesting was the wall carvings at different stages of incompletion ( will send u a few pictures in case u did not notice). we missed belur (which is a shame) because of the heavy downpour.
yeah, i also felt visiting these places on a rainy day would be better. the bland sunlight made many of pics look very ordinary.
in belagola, more than the monolith, i liked the basadis on Chandragiri. the parsvanath statue in one of the basadis was awesome.
Ah, I've been to all these places!
good for you!
anyway I'm embarrassed that I didn't do this trip on my first weekend here.
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