When it comes to temple tour of India, the picture of south India comes first where the major temples like Somnathpur Temple, Badami Cave Temple, ISKCON Temple, Mukteswar temple, Thousand Pillar temple along with hundreds of other temples are situated and attracted the tourists for pilgrimage tour. Once Jawaharlal Nehru said in his "Discovery of India" about the versatile cultural continuity of India as "There is a stillness and everlastingness about the past, it changes not and has a touch of eternity", that perfectly fit to the architectural marvelous of Somnathpur Temple which is located in a tiny village on the banks of the Kaveri, 140 Kms, south-west of Bangalore in Karnataka State. The Somnathpur Temple was built by the Hoysala ruler around 1268 AD when India was witnessing the Golden Age. The south India tour of Somnathpur temple also takes to other excursions of Bangalore like Lal Bagh Gardens, Vidhan Soudha (State Secretariat), Cubbon Park, Bangalore Palace, Venkatappa Art Gallery, Tipu's Palace, ISKCON Temple, Shiva Statue, Bull temple, Aquarium and many more to explore while at Somnathpur temple tour.
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