Channagiri is a town in Davanagere district in the state of Karnataka, India.

[3] Channagiri has a hill fort which was built around 1770 with a Ranganatha temple inside it, which rises to a height of about 200 feet to the west of the town consists of a single soft dark covered with earth which commands a wide plain.

The fort consists of two rubble walls defending by moats, the chief gate being on the north where the gradient is lowest.

It is called Bete-Ranganatha and depicts Vishnu standing in samabhanga holding chakra and sankha in his back hands and arrow in his front hands with a low Garuda pedestal below him and a consort in relievo on the prabhavali on each side.

[5] To its south-west is a small shrine dedicated to Bhutappa which contains the head of the god whose tongue projects out of his mouth.