Hampi trip - A trip to lost kingdom day 2 -Part1

This blog is continuation of hampi trip about my second day. After I reached  viupaksha temple I had few options to go around unseen part of hampi like renting a two wheeler/cycle  or  Auto .I could also walk around hampi. I rented a auto for 500 rs  for 2.5 hours place which are  in and around 5 kms.Afternoon I had planned to go anegudi other side of thungabadra and also Kiskinta,

Krishna temple and bazar.

Krishna temple was built by krishnadevaraya most famous king of vijayanagar.

Krishna temple has  a Bazar and pushkarni in front. I took a look over damaged statues inside temple.

I walked across krishna bazar  to reach empty pushkarni.
I got my picture clicked by a foreigner.One strange thing about hampi  was I saw more foreigners in hampi than Indians.Auto drivers were speaking foreign accent of English .Ironically  vocabulary was still average.

Badavi Linga and Ugra Narshima

Both these structures were situated close to each other .A  water channel and fields were behind the sanctum,

Ugra Narashima is 22 feet majestic statue .Invaders have caused some extensive damages to this statue. Missing top structure exposes structure to adverse weather condition directly. Once Detached Legs are now  attached to main structure using a stone bandage like structure. Badavi linga has water around supplied by the passing  water channel.

badavi linga

Sister Stones

Sister stones are two huge stones attached to each other naturally.Though they lived close to each other for centuries, nature has now broken the relationship .One of it has broken off few years ago.

Hazare rama temple.

 This is most beautiful and elegant temples in Hampi. Sculptors from Kanchipuram have worked over 12 years to complete this temple work . Temple is built with special polished stones.Sculptures here still have rich shiny  look.

Ramayana stories are depicted around temple's one side of inner wall.Other side of temple wall had many statues like buddha, balakrishna , dancing krishna and vishnu statues. It had tall outer wall that has story of Lava,kusa (Sons of Lord Ram) .

                                                   Buddha in his mediation

Story of lava kusa in outer wall

balakrishna ,Krishna playing flute

Ram and his brothers traveling in elephant

 Pushkarni and missing palace.
Next I went to most important place of kingdom where once palace stood. It was elevated empty  space except few structures  like underground room , pushkarani, Pushkarani here is aesthetically built and has very long stone pipeline from outer wall of palace coming to pool .Under ground  path was dark.
 

Stone pipe for water

Lotus Mahal

This was two stored resting place used by royal ladies of palace during summer. Concentric and parallel arranged Lotus petals open in different areas like structure adds a lovely look  to this mahal  . It has Pipline going at top of mahal and surrounded the room to cool the place.

AC pipeline

Elephant stable and Queen Bath
Queen Bath is huge closed indoor swimming pool used by royal women of palace.This place is far away from river tungabhadra. So kingdom had good waterways and distribution inside city.

Elephant Stable.

This is series of tall rooms where elephants used to stay indoors comfortably.There is a art musuem near it which has common structures that were created during vijayanagar reign.

Watch towers.

This are towers where kings men will watch the area around for security.Due to some accidents that have happened over year  climbing into it is no more allowed.