Amruturu is a town in the Kunigal taluk of the Tumkur district, Karnataka, India.
The place is headquarters of the hobli of the same name. In the ancient period, Amruturu was an agrahara (a Brahmin quarter) and was called Atakur and Veera-Narasimhapur.
Temples
The Chennakeshava temple is an example of the Dravidian architecture of the 16th century A.D. The Someshvara temple, also called Chandramaulishvara, also dates to the 16th century A.D. The Pattalamma temple (the village goddess) has several painted stucco figures. The ones of Pattalamma and Lakshmi are canopied by a seven-hooded serpent. Shiva and ten incarnations of Vishnu have been painted on the walls and beams of the temple.
References
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