The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c25.s1.8
The Chālukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c25.s1.8
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Upon the south side of the main temple is a smaller and plainer one, built in granite, in the verandah of which is a large inscribed slab bearing a record of the time of the Western Chalukya king Vikramāditya VI., which is dated in the Śaka year 1034 (A.D. 1112). It tells us that the temple was founded, as a temple of Śiva, under the name Mahādēvēśvara, by the Daṇḍanāyaka, or ‘Leader of the Forces’, Mahādēva, a high officer of the king, who was born at Ittagi, and that he made a grant of land and other gifts to it on the above date.