Dodda Ganeshana Gudi, Hindu temple in Basavanagudi, Bengaluru, India

Dodda Basavana Gudi, the Bull Temple, is a small Hindu temple in Basavanagudi, South Bengaluru, inside Bugle Rock park. It consists of a shrine fronted by a porch in the Vijayanagara style, with a pale yellow multi-tiered tower bearing Saivite figures and motifs above four square pillars. A tall stone column stands before the dark central entrance, and the base walls are yellow with red and white stripes.

The temple was built in 1537 by Kempe Gowda, a local vassal of the Vijayanagara Empire who also founded Bengaluru, in the Vijayanagara architectural style. It consists of a shrine with a porch, named for the granite Nandi monolith placed inside the garbhagriha. The tower over the shrine was added in the early 20th century and carries Saivite figures and motifs.

The temple is named for the sacred bull Nandi, called Basava in Kannada; "nandi" means "joyful" in Sanskrit. Each year on the last Monday and Tuesday of the Hindu month Karthika Maasa, the Kadalekaayi Parishe groundnut fair fills the premises, and groundnuts are offered to the deity.

The temple stands on Bull Temple Road in Basavanagudi, inside Bugle Rock park, with the Dodda Ganesha temple and the park's rock outcrop and water tank nearby. The shrine is small, just a porch before the garbhagriha, so visitors see the Nandi monolith from close range. The groundnut fair, Kadalekaayi Parishe, fills the premises on the last Monday and Tuesday of Karthika Maasa.

The Nandi monolith in the shrine has blackened over centuries of being rubbed with charcoal and oil, and it is still coated with fresh layers of butter, called benne in Kannada. The tower above the shrine, added in the early 20th century, carries Saivite figures and motifs.