The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c43.3

c43.3

A few years ago, the writer saw at Bādāmi, but a few miles away to the west, just such a dolmen, on a smaller scale, set up in the middle of a temporary encampment of *vadārs*, or stone workers, engaged by the railway company, where it was being used as a little shrine for their worship. On the plateau, between Bādāmi and Mahākūṭēśvara, are to be found hundreds of miniature dolmens, which are daily put up by the women pilgrims to the latter shrine to register their vows. These are composed of a few flat stones, and, as they fall apart, their stones are used over again to build others.