The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c7.4

c7.4

² To the villagers' untutored mind there is no difficulty in accounting for the existence of these venerable remains. If they were not built by the Pāndavas in a single night, they were erected by the mythical Jakanāchārya, a prince who, to expiate the terrible sin of killing a Brāhman, employed twenty years of his life in building temples from Benāres to Cape Comorin. In like manner old temples found in north Gujarāt are all ascribed to Siddhārāja in the Dakhan to Hemādpant in Khandesh to the Gavalī rājās and in the north to Viśvakarma.