The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c25.s1.1

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THIS is one of the most complete and highly finished of existing Chālukyan temples. It stands in the small village of Ittagi, in the Nizām's territory, about twenty-two miles due east of Gadag. It consists of a shrine, with its antechamber, a closed and an open hall, in this order from west to east, the temple facing the rising sun. The principal damage that has befallen the building has been the loss of its kalaśa or finial, together with the crowning member of the tower immediately below it, and the cornice and parapet along the outer edge of the roof of the open pillared hall. It measures, over all, 120 feet by 66 feet (Plates CI—CVII).