HALEBID, a village in Mysore state, southern India. It is the site of Dorasamudra, the capital of the Hoysala dynasty founded early in the I 1 th century. In 13 1 o and in 1326 it was plundered by the first Mohammedan invader of south India. Two temples, still standing, though never completed and partly ruined, are the finest examples of elaborately carved Chalukyan architecture.