Perhaps the most popular sahasranama is the Vishnu Sahasranama which gives out thousand different names of Vishnu. Even within these thousand names, it is the set of twenty-four names that is most widely recited and considered the most important one. Every name of this deity [and most others also] has distinct meaning and dimension. Very few temples posses the right iconography to depict that distinct rupa. Amongst such temples, the ones built by the Hoysalas stand tallest. Every panel of a Hoysala temple narrates a unique story. One of the most fascinating set of sculptures in the Indian temple architecture is the twenty-four images of Vishnu found on the walls of most of the Vaishnava Hoysala temples.