Hampi - World Heritage Site

Hampi - World Heritage Site!!!

We went to Hampi from Bangalore for one day on road. We left Bangalore before 5AM morning.

We saw the various huge monolithic Ganesha, Hanuman and Shivalinga statues in Hampi. Most of which were Khandit and hence were no longer worshiped. There are about 350 temples in that city of 33 sq. km. Most of them are totally destroyed and have no idols within them. But the carvings on the pillars are worth admiring. They make you wonder how artists can weave such magic onto a stone and make it speak like a storyteller. Each stone has a story to tell. Whether in the form of the royal signage of that era, the games people played those days, the entertainment and the lifestyle. The epics of that Hindu mythology that were the basis of very life as they can be found all over the place. There are temple structures over the hillocks, on the ground and underground too.

The roads in Hampi are well maintained and the signs for various monuments are clearly written in English, Hindi, and Kannada. The signboards are well maintained, one of the rare sights on Indian tourist sights.

So treading through narrow lanes in the midst of some of the most picturesque locations, we reached Virupaksha Temple. Which is the only temple now from the old city of Hampi, where Pooja is still performed. There was typical architecture in the temple that we saw across the city later. We could not gather the name of the kind of architecture, but it had a basis of pillars and long corridors. And all that we could gather was that it had evolved from multiple architectures from the preceding eras. We clicked pics of big bells, ornate pillars, long corridors, typical structures of four pillars with a roof.

Lotus Mahal was the place where the queens used to live in summers. It had a typical corridor structure to keep the palace cool. There was some canal routed through the palace to give the water cooling.

Then there was the Queen’s bath, whereas the name says Queen’s used to take bath. It’s absolutely ruined. But the ruins still tell that it was probably one the best-decorated building in those days.

Finally, toward the end of the tour, we reached Vittala temple, which is known for its chariot carved out of stone and the musical pillars. There are pillars that give us the seven Suras or Sargam. The sounds of Mridangam, Tabla, Jal Tarang, Ghatak, and many other instruments. Imagine sounds coming out of solid stone pillars. The temple is serenely placed by the river Tungabhadra.

At Tungabhadra here, we can see some stone pillars in the middle of the river. These are told to be dating back to Ramayana days when this place was called Kishkindha. The kingdom of Vaanar or monkey Kings Bali and Sugriva. At the bank is a temple dedicated to poet Purander Das and to date the devotees sing his poems every evening there. On the other side of Kishkindha, we can see small hills and the paths to reach the temple on top of those hillocks.

By evening 6PM we left Hampi and Reached Bangalore by almost 11PM.

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