The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c14.s1.3

c14.s1.3

The old Jaina temple, in the west end of the village, is the oldest building here, and is not so very far removed in style from that of Kallēśvara at Kukkanūr. It will have been noticed in the last example, and still more in this, that the blocks, of which they have been built, have diminished in size since the building of the old temples of Paṭṭadakal and Aihoḷe. They have, at Lakkuṇḍi, quite lost that cyclopean character which distinguishes the early buildings. They are yet, however, large and heavy enough to be piled up without any cementing material (Plate LXI).