The wonderful sixteenth century Veerabhadra sanctuary, otherwise called Lepakshi sanctuary, is situated in the little chronicled town of Lepakshi in the Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh, India, around 15 km east of Hindupur and roughly 120 km north of Bangalore. Implicit the ordinary style of Vijayanagara engineering, the sanctuary highlights numerous wonderful figures of god, goddesses, artists and performers, and many canvases everywhere on the dividers, sections and roof portraying stories from the legends of the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the Puranas. This incorporates a 24 feet by 14 feet fresco of Veerabhadra, the blazing god made by Shiva, on the roof, which is the biggest fresco of any single figure in India. At the front of the sanctuary is an enormous Nandi (bull), the mount of Shiva, which is cut from a solitary square of stone, and is supposed to be one of the biggest of its sort on the planet.
