 About 300 of the original Hoysala Empire temples survive in different states of damage, scattered around the Halebid region.Of these, states Hardy, about 70 had been studied to varying degrees of detail by 1995.The Hoysaleswara temple, also spelled as Hoysaleshwara or Hoywalesvara temple, is a twin-temple, or "dvikuta" "vimana" (plan with two shrines and two superstructures).