The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c28.s2.11

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There are upwards of eighty inscriptions at Baḷagāmve which tell us of the building of temples and the granting of money and lands for their upkeep; they also record the meritorious deaths of heroes and fanatical suicides. They are Śaiva, Vaiṣṇava, Jaina and Buddhist. The earliest known inscription here is one of the time of Vinayāditya Chālukya, which is interesting as being the earliest known stone record in Western India that has an emblem sculptured upon it—that of an elephant.