The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c12.s1.1

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T HE village of Kukkanūr is in H. E. H. the Nizām's territory, at a short distance across the border from Gadag in the Dhārwār district, and four miles north of Ittagi. In the middle of the town is a high-walled enclosure containing temples of different periods. The largest one, that of Mahāmayī, which occupies the centre of the court-yard, and is now the principal shrine of the group, has been so patched up and encrusted with whitewash that, from without, it is difficult to make much out of it. The nucleus, around which the rest has grown, appears to be of the same age as the walls and gateways of the enclosure, probably of the Vijayanagar period, and so comparatively late.