Koodli

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Kudli Koodli, Kudali
village
Kudli Koodli, Kudali Location in Karnataka, India
Coordinates: 14°0′22″N 75°40′27″E / 14.00611°N 75.67417°E / 14.00611; 75.67417
Country	India
State	Karnataka
Languages
• Official	Kannada
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)

Koodli, also spelled Kudli or Kudali, is a small historic village in Shimoga District, in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is at the sangam (confluence) of two rivers, the Tunga River and Bhadra River at nearly 1,200 metres (3,937 ft). They meet here to give rise to the Tungabhadra River, a tributary of the Krishna river. Their valleys host many architectural sites. The village was a much larger town and pilgrimage center before the 14th-century, one destroyed during the Islamic conquests of the south. Important temples and their ruins here include the Jagadguru Sri Shankaracharya Dakshinamnaya Sringeri Sharada Peetham, Sangamesvara temple (8th-century, oldest), Ramesvara temple, Sri Chintamani Narasimha temple, Sringeri Vediki temple (with monastery), Vishwakarma temple, Sharadamba temple (with monastery), Amma Devasthana, and the Brahmeswara temple. Other scattered ruins of unknown temples are also found here.^[1][2]

This site should not be confused with the other historic temples site called Kudalasangama, which is about 300 kilometres (186 mi) north where rivers Malaprabha and Krishna meet.