Visiting the chennakesava temple in Belur is a pleasure, partly due to that sense of reconnaissance you experience on seeing the temple, a relic from the almost forgotten history textbooks, and partly owing to the exceptional architecture. This temple is build along the same lines as the Hoysaeswara temple of Halebid, even then you can spend hours studying the intricate carvings of this temple. Be it the sculpture of the lady who is admiring herself in a mirror or that of the pet parrot sitting on the fore palm of a lady or that of Huntress or the tribhangi nritya, each and every piece of architecture in this temple is a piece to marvel upon. So detailed is the architecture in this temple that one is left wide mouthed with wonder and admiration. For example there is one architecture of a monkey pulling the edge of a sari of a lady, in this sculpture not only is the twig shown with which the lady is about to beat the monkey but also the teeth of the monkey can be seen.
