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Pattabhirama Temple
Pattabhirama Temple is as large as the ornate Vittala
Temple, but is less impressive, as the carvings are not very
fine. This temple was dedicated to Lord Rama. This
has an underground walk way around the inner sanctum for Pradakshina.
One can also see a Pushkarni infront of this temple,
lying in a damaged state.
Anegondi Fort Across the river Tungabhadra,
is an ancient historical town known as Anegondi.
It had formed the northern outpost of Vijayanagara Empire.
It is now represented by a broken fort wall and its ruins scattered
about the present village of Anegondi. There are lot of temples and
civil buildings. Apart from Pampa sarovara and Navarundavana.
Tungabhadra Dam
Tungabhadra Dam is built across the river Tungabhadra. It is
one of the biggest multi purpose dams in Karnataka. It is spread over
an area of 400 sq.kms. It has 33 gates
from which water gushes out forming it into a breath-taking site.
The water canals of this Dam genarate 27 mega watts
of electricity and also irrigates thousands of acres of lands. This
dam also forms a great place of recreation for tourists with its beautiful
gardens, children play parks, aquarium and musical fountain.
Hampi University
Hampi university is an unique university for Kannada
language, which is used by students to study PHD on various
subjects related to kannada culture. This campus is spread over 100
acres of land. Here one can appreciate the efforts put by
the Engineers to adopt the ancient architecture of Vijayanagara
Empire, in its buildings.
Bear Sanctuary
The Daroji Bear sanctuary is the first sloth
bear sanctuary in Asia and is situated 25 kms away
from Hospet. The total area of the sanctuary is around 55.873
sq.kms. The area is full of white rocky out crops, boulders,
caves and crevices that are ideally suited as a habitat for sloth
bears. There are more than 150 sloth bears reported
to exist in the sanctuary. Apart from the bears one can also find
wolves, jackals, striped hyenas, monkeys, leopards and peacocks.
 Octagonal
Bath
The Octagonal Bath has a large open Mantapa
with four centered Arches. Springing from heavy square pillars. Originally
this must have had very fine stucco decoration. The
use of this is not known.
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