Betrayaswamy Temple, Denkanikottai

Betrayaswamy Temple, also called the Denkanikottai Temple, is a Vishnu shrine in the town of Denkanikottai, Krishnagiri district, around 30 km from Hosur. Vishnu is worshipped as Devaperumal and Lakshmi as Soundaryavalli, and it is one of the 108 Abhimana Kshethrams of the Vaishnava tradition. Its legend, told in the Skanda Purana, has Venkateswara come from Tirumala as a hunter to protect the sage Kanva from a yaksha, killing him with a mace called Denkani, from which the town's name is said to derive. The Wodeyars of Mysore added pillared halls and major shrines in the 16th century.

Built in Hoysala style, the temple covers about an acre inside granite walls and is entered through a five-tiered rajagopuram. The standing image in the sanctum resembles that at Tirumala, and there are shrines to Venugopala and Rama. Three tanks belong to the temple. The fifteen-day Chittirai Kalyana Utsavam and the nine-day Brahmotsavam, when the temple car is drawn round the streets, are the main festivals.