Country India District Mysore Time zone IST (UTC+5:30) | State Karnataka Talukas Krishnaraja Nagara | |
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The Arakeshwara Temple is a Hindu temple in Hale Yedatore, a village in the Krishnaraja Nagara taluk of the Mysore district, Karnataka state, India. The temple dates back at least to early 19th century rule of the Mysore Kingdom and is built in typical dravidian style. Hale Yedatore is located only a few miles north of the commercially important town of Krishnarajanagara and about 24 miles north-west of the historically important city of Mysore.
The temple is a protected monument under the Karnataka state division of the Archaeological Survey of India. According to the renowned British Raj era historian and epigraphist B. Lewis Rice, the temple was endowed by Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III, the ruler of the princely Mysore, during the British rule over India. The name Yedatore derives from two Kannada language words, yeda (lit, "left") and tore (lit, "river") - a name that arises from the "bend to the left" made by the river at that spot which is considered sacred by Hindus. There are steps leading from the temple down to the bathing areas ("ghats") by the river.