Shree Badavilinga Gudi

The story of Shree Badavilinga Gudi

Shree Badavilinga Gudi is an ancient temple, and the thing that catches the eye here is the shrine and pedestal with a Hindu linga set within a pool of water. It is one of the places inside Vijayanagara, the historic city in Karnataka that was the capital city of the historic Vijayanagara Empire and spread across a large area on the banks of the Tungabhadra River.

What you are standing at has no separate recorded history of its own in the material I have, so the safest way to read it is as part of that much larger landscape of ruins. The Group of Monuments at Hampi, a part of the Vijayanagara ruins, has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and this temple belongs to that wider world of sacred and historical places.

For a visitor, the most practical thing is simple: Shree Badavilinga Gudi is open every day from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM. If you want to see the shrine clearly, stand back and take in the linga, the pedestal, and the water surrounding it as a single composition.