The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c11.s2.4

c11.s2.4

Upon the building are inscribed the names of many of the sculptures, and high up on the east face, on the south side of the door, is an inscription, in characters which Dr. Fleet says are not much, if at all, earlier than the seventh century, in praise of a certain Chaṭṭara Revadi-Ovajja, who is said to have "made the southern country," *i.e.*, was the builder of the temples of the southern country, and hence, by inference, the builder of this. He belonged to the same guild to which the builder of Lokeśvara was attached. In Fergusson's *Indian and Eastern Architecture*, as revised by Dr. Burgess, the age is put down as, approximately, A.D. 700. It is hardly likely that three great costly temples would have been in hand in one place at nearly the same time. A.D. 650 as the latest possible date, therefore, would be, perhaps, as near the mark as we can get with present data.