About
About Danashala Basadi
- Year of establishment
- Hoysala-period restoration; earlier monastery
- Established by
- To be confirmed; restored during Hoysala period and endowed by Chikkadevaraja Wodeyar
- Main deity
- Panchaparameshthis
- Timings
- Usually open from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- Location
- Open map
This was formerly a monastery. Because charity was distributed here, it came to be known as Danashala Basadi. The long, narrow, rectangular building was restored in the Hoysala period. It has ten interior pillars and four exterior pillars. A partition wall creates the sanctum, which contains three-foot images of the Panchaparameshthis. The doorway is about four feet high and is ornamented mainly with a creeper band. The pillars of the outer sloping structure date to the eleventh or twelfth century. Inside, the pillars are square or octagonal, with some combining square and round sections. Faded painted linear designs remain on the ceiling. Chidananda Kavi’s Munivamshabhyudaya, composed in AD 1602, records that during the time of Dodda Devaraja Wodeyar, Mysore ruler Chikkadevaraja Wodeyar made a pilgrimage to Belagola, visited this Basadi, and endowed the village of Madanevu for its worship.
