LORD CHENNAKESAVA OF BELUR

It is this temple's grandeur that made the foreign travellers accept their inability of describing its ineffable beauty; it is this temple's sculptors who threw a uncontestable challenge to the posterity to create at least a similar to this; it is the archamurthi of this temple brought from elsewhere just at the time of consecretion ceremony; it is this temple town that gave asylum to Srirangaraya, one of the Vijayanagara kings, and it is this temple's inscriptions bear eloquent testimony to the justifiable pride of the master sculptors in inscribing their names together with a challenge.

Deemed as unparalleled master-piece of inimitable grace, charm and symmetry in stone; consecreted by the life-size archamurthis of splenderous beauty; patronised by cultured monarchs of catholocity of outlook; enriched the glory of the archives; eulogised by foreign travellers in glowing phrases, acclaimed in Kavyas like Kavikathahara; visited by millions of devout theists and expert aesthetes; this Belur temple has been luring pilgrims and connoisseurs of art since the twelfth century. 

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