elephant statue forming the basement of temple - hoysala architecture

1117 12thcentury abstract all also ancient antique architecture architetured art background banks base basement battle beautiful belur buildings called capital chennakesava chennakeshava classic commissioned culture design district early elephant empire force form forming god hassan hindu hoysala india italy karnataka kesava keshava king museum old referred renaissance river roman rows sculpture sculptures state statue statues taken temple typically velapura vijayanarayana war