The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c16.s1.8

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In the temple are several inscriptions, some of which are inscribed on the pillars, recording grants to the god for the purpose of worship, but they are mostly late, being dated in the years A.D. 1228, 1260, 1269 and 1301. But a slab, outside the temple, recording a grant, is of 1108. On a beam, inside is an earlier one dated, if read correctly, in 1087, of the second year of Vira-Ballāḷa's reign (Śilāhāra). There is another inscription in the village dated in A.D. 1067, recording the grant of the village of Hāvēri to four hundred Brāhmaṇs, but it does not mention the temple.