Arakeshwara Temple, Hale Yedatore

The Arakeshwara Temple stands in Hale Yedatore, a village in Krishnaraja Nagara taluk, Mysore district, about 4 km north of Krishnarajanagara and 44 km north-west of Mysore. The name Yedatore comes from the Kannada for 'left river', after the sacred bend to the left that the Kaveri makes here. Floods in the 1920s badly damaged the village, and the Mysore ruler built the new town of Krishnarajanagar on higher ground to the south.

The present Dravidian-style complex dates at least to the early 19th century; according to the historian B. Lewis Rice it was endowed by Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III, though the original temple goes back to the time of Kulottunga Chola I. Steps lead from the temple down to bathing ghats on the river. The temple is protected by the ASI, and across the Kaveri stands the Yadatore Sri Yogandeshwara Saraswathi math, an Advaita institution with a history of more than 700 years.