Belur', a village of Mysore, 130 miles W. of Bangalore. Known in the Purānas as Velapura, locally regarded as the Southern Benares, it is the site of a celebrated temple. Pop. 2917.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 66
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