The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c28.s2.8

c28.s2.8

The temple of Dakṣiṇa-Kēdārēśvara was probably built about the end of the eleventh century, just before which, a Jaina temple had been put up (in A.D. 1068). The completion of the maṇḍapa was still in hand in A.D. 1200, unless this was some repair. Inscriptions recording grants to the temple extend from A.D. 1103 to 1193. In an inscription of A.D. 1065 mention is made of the building of a Buddha vihāra, when provision was made for it together with the gods Kēśava, Lōkēśvara and Buddha. Two years after this a Buddhist image of Tārā-Bhagavatī was set up. Attached to the temple of Kēdārēśvara was the Kōḍiya maṭha, a kind of college which was not only a celebrated seat of learning but was also a centre for the dispensing of medicines to all manner of sick persons, and, like the mediæval monasteries in Europe, for the distribution of food to the destitute and mendicant of all classes and sects.¹