Navratri or otherwise, this Lakshmi temple has no rush of devotees: Doddagaddavalli
I did not know that Doddagaddavalli was the birth place of legendary Vina Vidwan Shri Doraiswamy Iyengar till that time I read the Swarajya article in 2020. It maybe that I had not paid any attention to his autobiographical profile before that, or maybe I was not aware of Doddagaddavalli when I used to listen to his music, in those old tapes. Like many others, my knowledge of Hoysala temples was limited to the Belur and Halebid, the ones I visited as a dreamy 18-years old college student. The horizon expanded a bit when I “discovered” Somanathapura a decade ago. It just engulfed me when I went on the Indica sponsored TSD rally three years ago. For months after that I got hold of whatever books, articles I could get about Hoysalas and their art. In January 2020 embarked on another visit to Belur, Halebid, Somanathapura and many of the smaller, lesser known Hoysala temples. The study, the research and further visits took a backseat when the pandemic stuck. But that also was a period wh...