Kote Venugopalaswamy Temple

Venugopalaswamy temple is located at Devanahalli town in Bengaluru Rural district. This is a beautiful Dravidian structure consisting of a garbhagriha, a sukanasi, a navaranga and a mantapa in front, all situated within a spacious Prakara with a tall dvaragopura to east. An image of Venugopalakrishna flanked by Rukmini and Satyabhama is installed in the cella. The navaranga has four black stone pillars carved with images on all the four sides. Some of the figures worthy of note are Hayagriva, dancing female figures with attendant musicians, a conch flower, a huntress getting a thorn out of her leg and a kinnara with the lower half of the body in the form of a bird. The outer walls of the temple have a frieze of large images about 50 cm high, illustrating scenes mostly from the Ramayana. The Balakanda story is well illustrated on the north and the south walls. A portion of the north wall has the images of Dasavatara. In a cell inside the prakara is kept a vehicle called Chitragopura Vahana. The stucco figures in the niches over the front verandah of the temple and the gopura are well executed.