The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c29.s1.1

c29.s1.1

THESE two temples stand close beside each other, within the same enclosed courtyard, in the southern quarter of the town of Gadag. The temple of Trikūṭēśvara as originally built, was a double temple like that of Kāśiviśvēśvara at Lakkuṇḍi. It consists of the principal shrine, facing east, with a small closed hall before it, together with a larger open hall in front of this again. In continuation of this is a second smaller shrine facing the first. Between the two halls were entrances into the temple, but that on the north side has been closed up by a small shrine that has been built against it. The larger hall belongs to the smaller shrine on the east, and it is possible that the larger western shrine was built after the other and against it. But the original western shrine, which is about the same size as the other, is not seen from outside, for it has been built around with a later wall to form a closed-in *pradakshiṇa*, or circumambulatory passage around the outside of the older shrine walls (Plates CXVI—CXXII).