Place · hill-top Vaishnava temple · India
Malyavanta Raghunatha Temple, Hampi
Also known as Malyavanta Hill Temple
The Malyavanta Raghunatha Temple on Malyavanta Hill, two kilometres east of the Royal Centre on the road to Kampili. The site is identified by the Vijayanagara tradition with the four-month rainy-season retreat where Rama and Lakshmana are said in the Kishkindha Kanda of the Ramayana to have waited for the monsoon to end before marching south to Lanka. The temple on the summit is a 15th-century foundation; the natural rock surface inside the sanctum carries the Rama-Lakshmana-Sita icon shrine, worshipped as svayambhu (self-manifested).
- Date
- 1425–1475
- Periods
- Vijayanagara
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Patron dynasty
- Vijayanagara
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 15.339, 76.487
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- Site withinHampi / Vijayanagara
The Malyavanta Raghunatha Temple sits on Malyavanta Hill, two kilometres east of the Royal Centre of Hampi on the road to Kampili. The site is identified by Vijayanagara tradition with the Ramayana's Kishkindha-Kanda rainy-season retreat where Rama and Lakshmana waited for the monsoon before marching to Lanka.