File:Kaitabhesvara temple, Kubatur.jpg

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The drawing:

• Kubatur (Kubattur, Kubaturu) is a small remote village in Shivamogga district, northwest Karnataka. It was a major historic town before the 14th-century, with Hindu and Jain temples. Three of these temples have survived in ruined and damaged form: Parsvanatha Basadi (Jain, 10th-century), Ramesvara temple (Rashtrakuta-style, Hindu, c. 900 CE) and Kaitabesvara temple (Hoysala-style, Hindu, c. 1100 CE). They are notable for their architecture and inscriptions – with one at the Rameshvara temple which lists the major forms of Hindu temples. The Hindu temples are also notable for their artwork from all its major traditions – Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism and of Vedic deities.

• This is the floor plan of the Kaitabhesvara temple in Kubatur.

• The temple's architectural plan follows the square and circle principle found in historic Sanskrit texts.

• GPS location of the monument:

14° 34′ 31.4″ N, 75° 08′ 49.2″ E

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14.575389; 75.147000

• The relative scale and relative dimensions in this architectural drawing are close to the actual but neither exact nor complete. The plan illustrates the design and layout, but some intricate details or parts of the temple may not be shown. In cases where exact measurements were not feasible, the drawing uses best approximations and rounds the best measurements feasible.

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