Melukote
Melukote in Pandavapura taluk of Mandya district, Karnataka, in southern India, is one of the sacred places in Karnataka. It is built on rocky hills, known as Yadugiri, Yaadavagiri or Yadushaila, overlooking the Cauvery valley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 4,010 residents
- Description: town in Mandya district, Mysore division, Karnataka, India
- Also known as: “Melkote” and “Thirunarayanapura”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cheluvanarayana Swamy Temple.
Cheluvanarayana Swamy Temple
Hindu temple
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cheluvanarayana Swamy Temple, also known as Selva Pillai or Thirunarayanapuram, is a temple in Melkote in the Mandya District of Karnataka, India. The temple lies on the foothills of Melkote and is associated with the Yoga Narasimha temple built on rocky hills which overlook the Kaveri valley.
Melukote
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Pandavpura, Mandya, Cauvery Basin, Karnataka, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
12.6624° or 12° 39′ 45″ northLongitude
76.6496° or 76° 38′ 59″ eastPopulation
4,010Elevation
1,018 metres (3,340 feet)Open location code
7J4RMJ6X+XVOpenStreetMap ID
node 1650539967OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1263152Wikidata ID
Q2667680
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Welsh—“Melukote” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “মেলুকোট”
- Bulgarian: “Мелукоте”
- Catalan: “Melukote”
- Catalan: “Thirunarayanapuram”
- Cebuano: “Melukote”
- Czech: “Melukote”
- Dutch: “Melukote”
- German: “Melukote”
- Hindi: “मेलकोट”
- Hindi: “मेलुकोटे”
- Irish: “Melukote”
- Japanese: “メルコート”
- Japanese: “メルコテ”
- Kannada: “ಮೇಲುಕೋಟೆ”
- Marathi: “मेलुकोटे”
- Russian: “Мелукоте”
- Sanskrit: “मेलुकोटे”
- Swedish: “Melukote”
- Tamil: “மேல்கோட்டை”
- Tulu: “ಮೇಲುಕೋಟೆ”
- Welsh: “Melukote”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Melukote”. Photo: Blacknclick, GFDL.