Kadalekalu Ganesha

The name means gram seed: someone saw the shape of a Bengal gram in the god's belly, and it stuck to a 4.5 m Ganesha cut from a single boulder on the northeastern slope of Hemakuta Hill. The sanctum opens onto a hall of unusually tall, slender Vijayanagara pillars covered in mythological scenes, and the porch frames the whole length of Hampi Bazaar with the foothills of Matanga Hill behind. Free; leave your shoes below the steps. A few minutes along the same slope stands the smaller Sasivekalu, the mustard-seed Ganesha.

One of South India's biggest monolithic Ganeshas, with the bazaar laid out below the porch