The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c44.7
The Chālukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c44.7
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c44.7
Near the village of Mantur, about six miles to the east of Hubli Junction, is a very curious stone (Plate CLIV). The upper portion of the face of the stone has a representation of a three-storeyed Dravidian temple or gopura, on each storey of which are portions of an old Kanarese inscription in letters of the tenth century A.D. The uppermost line tells us that the stone-cutter, Kante, fashioned this stone. The rest of the inscription is decipherable more or less, but it is not easy to make sense of it. There does not appear to be any other name in it, nor anything to give a clue to its meaning. On either side of the base of the gopura is the familiar waterpot such as we have found upon some of the older temples.