Place · Dvaita Hanuman shrine · India
Yantrodharaka Hanuman Temple, Hampi
Also known as Yantrodharaka Anjaneya Temple
The Yantrodharaka Hanuman Temple on the river bank north of Hampi, consecrated by the Dvaita saint Vyasatirtha (1460-1539) — Krishnadevaraya's rajaguru and the systematic founder of the Hanuman devotion that spread across the Deccan in the 16th century. 'Yantrodharaka' means 'uplifter of the yantra' — the shrine is built around a self-manifested bas-relief of Hanuman that Vyasatirtha drew with charcoal every day for twelve days, and that on the thirteenth day took on stone form on its own. The shrine is the mother house of the twelve Yantrodharaka Hanuman temples the saint consecrated across the Deccan.
- Date
- 1510–1530
- Periods
- Vijayanagara
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Patron dynasty
- Vijayanagara
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 15.343, 76.459
Connections (2)
- Site withinHampi / Vijayanagara
The Yantrodharaka Hanuman Temple stands on the Tungabhadra river bank at the north edge of the Hampi archaeological zone. Consecrated by Vyasatirtha, Krishnadevaraya's rajaguru, around 1515 — the mother house of the twelve Yantrodharaka Hanuman shrines he founded across the Deccan.
- Founder ofVyāsatīrtha
Vyasatirtha consecrated the Yantrodharaka Hanuman at Hampi around 1515 as the mother house of the 732 Hanuman shrines he is credited with founding across the Deccan. The shrine's svayambhu bas-relief of Hanuman is said in the Madhva tradition to have taken on stone form over twelve days of charcoal drawing by the saint himself — the proof of the yantra's self-manifestation that gave the shrine its name.