Gomateshwara Temple

Gomateshwara Temple Situated at intervals the Shravanabelagola town of Mysore, Gomateshwara temple is dedicated to Lord Bahubali in addition known as Gomateshwara. in-built the tenth century it's one in each of the foremost important travelling places for Jains. The sculpture conjures up awe among of us world over because of its distinctive structure. Standing at a large height of fifty eight.8 foot the idol is carved out of 1 granite rock. This monolithic structure stands at such a superb height with none external support. all-time low of the Bahubali idol possesses inscriptions written in three whole completely different languages – Sanskrit, South Dravidian and Tamil.
The most important event happens at intervals the temple once every twelve years. it's called Mahamastakabhishek and will be a necessary competition for Jains. throughout that Lord Bahubali is bathed and unclean with varied things like saffron paste, sugarcane, turmeric, milk and Chinese-red and offered varied precious stones and coins