Continuing rainfall in the Tungabhadra catchment areas and the resultant discharge of over 1.64 cusecs of water from the Tungabhadra reservoir continued to flood many monuments at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Hampi in Vijayanagara district on Wednesday.  

Purandara Mantapa, the bathing spot Chakrateertha, and the canal of the Vijayanagara empire were completely submerged in the floodwaters.

The premises of Rama Laxmana Temple, the Chandramouleshwar Temple, the 64-pillar Mantapa (the burial site of Vijayanagara emperor Krishnadevaraya) and Nava Brindavan, the burial site of Madhwa saints, were among the monuments that were heavily flooded.

The gistorical Venkataramana Temple, the Gangammana Katte, and the fort at Kampli in Ballari district have also been flooded.

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