The Krishna temple at Hampi was built by Krishnadevaraya to commemorate the success of his Orissa campaign. It is believed that he brought back with him, an idol of Bala Krishna―Krishna, the ...

The 14th-century statue of Lord Krishna, which was in the temple of Bala Krishna in Hampi, was shifted to the Egmore Museum in Chennai by the British. HUBBALLI: The locals in Hampi are demanding the ...

Krishna took me lovingly through the temples and groves where his had ancestors walked. The sacred heart of Hampi is the Temple of Virupaksha, where the keeper of the gate is an 18-year-old female ...

HOSAPETE: K N Krishna Bhat, chief priest of Badavi Linga temple in Hampi for nearly four decades, breathed his last on Sunday morning. He was 90 years old. Bhat was staying with his family in Hampi, ...

HOSAPETE: Vijayanagara District Deputy Commissioner M.S. Divakar has instructed officials from the state archaeology department and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to assess and plan the ...

Several ancient ‘saalu mantapas’ in Krishna Bazar, opposite to Krishna temple at the world famous Hampi have collapsed due to heavy rain that lashed the city on Tuesday evening. Sources in the ...

Hampi, the capital of the erstwhile Vijayanagar empire, has been a mystery for archaeologists, throwing up surprises at every new excavation. Now the town has sprung another one in the form of a ...