Hemakuta Hill overlooks the Virupaksha Temple.  It's just next to the Kadalekalu Ganesha.  It's a collection of small temples, some from the Vijayanagara Era, some from before that.  The Viyanagara Project research puts many of the temples in the 13th and 14th centuries, and there is definitely a different style to them - squatter and broader with curves where Viyanagara architecture doesn't have curves.

Many of these temples are situated on or near a smooth, eroded rock surface.  It was like seeing Hindu temples on the moon.

Just beneath all these temples was a beautiful view of the Virupaksha Temple.  It was like getting to soar, since it was so close, but quite far below. 

More Hemakuta pictures.