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Ensemble monumental de Hampi
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Deccan
thumb|Photo satellite du plateau du Deccan Le Deccan ou Dekkan désigne le plus souvent un vaste plateau de l'Inde, s'étendant sur la majeure partie de l'Inde centrale et méridionale mais parfois aussi toute la péninsule indienne ou encore certaines divisions politiques ou administratives. thumb|240px|left|Plateau du Deccan et reliefs. Le Deccan est situé au sud de la plaine indo-gangétique, limité à l'ouest par le Ghâts occidentaux, les Ghâts orientaux à l'est, les Nîlgîri au sud et les chaînes de Satpura et de Vindhya au nord.
Hoysala
L'Empire Hoysala était un empire d'Inde du Sud qui s'étendait sur la majeure partie de l'Etat actuel du Karnataka entre le Xe et le . Sa capitale, initialement la ville de Belur, fut ensuite transférée à Halebid. Les souverains Hoysala étaient originaires de la région de Malenadu, dans les Ghats occidentaux. Durant le , profitant des luttes intestines entre les Chalukya occidentaux, qui gouvernaient alors la région, et les royaumes de Kalachuri, les Hoysala annexèrent des parties de ce qui est aujourd'hui le Karnataka et les régions fertiles au nord du delta du fleuve Kaveri dans l'actuel Tamil Nadu.
Gopura
Dans l'architecture des temples hindouistes, un gopura (gopuram en Inde du Sud, gapura en Indonésie) est une construction par laquelle on pénètre dans les enceintes successives d'un temple En Inde, les gopuras sont typiques de l'architecture dravidienne de l'Inde du Sud. Ce sont des tours monumentales très richement décorées. Le nom vient, selon certains, de deux mots tamouls : கோ (Kō=roi) et புறம் (puram=extérieur) Les enceintes des temples sont généralement orientées est-ouest avec une entrée, située à l'est.
Vyasatirtha
Vyāsatīrtha (. 1460 – 1539), also called Vyasaraja or Chandrikacharya, was a Hindu philosopher, scholar, polemicist, commentator and poet belonging to the Madhwacharya's Dvaita order of Vedanta. As the patron saint of the Vijayanagara Empire, Vyasatirtha was at the forefront of a golden age in Dvaita which saw new developments in dialectical thought, growth of the Haridasa literature under bards like Purandara Dasa and Kanaka Dasa and an amplified spread of Dvaita across the subcontinent.
Marathi (peuple)
The Marathi people (मराठी लोक) or Marathis (मराठी) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are indigenous to Maharashtra in western India. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language. Maharashtra was formed as a Marathi-speaking state of India in 1960, as part of a nationwide linguistic reorganization of the Indian states. The term "Maratha" is generally used by historians to refer to all Marathi-speaking peoples, irrespective of their caste; however, now it may refer to a Maharashtrian caste known as the Maratha.
Badami cave temples
The Badami cave temples are a complex of Hindu and Jain cave temples located in Badami, a town in the Bagalkot district in northern part of Karnataka, India. The caves are important examples of Indian rock-cut architecture, especially Badami Chalukya architecture, and the earliest date from the 6th century. Badami is a modern name and was previously known as Vataapinagara, the capital of the early Chalukya dynasty, which ruled much of Karnataka from the 6th to the 8th century.
Vijayanagara district
Vijayanagara district is a district in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, located in the Kalyana-Karnataka region. The city of Vijayanagara is its headquarters. Vijayanagara was officially carved out of Bellary on 2 October 2021 to become the 31st district of the state with Vijayanagara as the district headquarters. It is home to Hampi, the former capital of the famous Vijayanagara Empire and a UNESCO World Heritage site, and several historical places are located in the district.
Hospet
Hospet or Hosapete is the largest and fastest-growing industrial city and district headquarters of the Vijayanagara district in the Indian state of Karnataka. Hospet is known as "the steel city of Karnataka". It is located on the banks of the Tungabhadra River and is from Hampi (Vijayanagar). The present day Hampi was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire. It has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Hospet is the connecting link between North and South Karnataka. It is from the state capital Bengaluru.
Narahari Tirtha
Narahari Tirtha ( 1243 - 1333) was a Dvaita philosopher, scholar, statesman and one of the disciples of Madhvacharya. He is considered to be the progenitor of the Haridasa movement along with Sripadaraja. Though only two of his scholarly works are extant, they are characterised by their verbosity and lack of digressions. A few songs of his survive under the pen name Raghukulatilaka. As a minister of considerable influence to the Eastern Ganga rulers and later as the pontiff of Madhvacharya mutt, Narahari converted the Simhachalam temple into an educational establishment of renown and a religious centre for Vaishnavism.
Vijayanagara architecture
Vijayanagara architecture of 1336–1565 CE was a notable building idiom that developed during the rule of the imperial Hindu Vijayanagara Empire. The empire ruled South India, from their regal capital at Vijayanagara, on the banks of the Tungabhadra River in modern Karnataka, India. The empire built temples, monuments, palaces and other structures across South India, with the largest concentration in its capital. The monuments in and around Hampi, in the Vijayanagara district, are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.