The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c8.s2.11

c8.s2.11

The images of Gaṅgā (the Ganges) and Yamunā (the Jumna) were also favourite objects in the earlier temples, especially in Northern India, being generally placed on either side of the shrine door. They first appear in very early temples at the top of the door jambs, and from there they were brought down to the bottom and finally disappeared altogether in later work.² Gaṅgā and Yamunā are frequently mentioned in old Kanarese inscriptions. Vijayāditya’s inscriptions, for instance, say that he conquered some great king of Northern India when he acquired the *pālidhvaja* banner and also the insignia of the signs of the rivers Gaṅgā and Yamunā. These were also Rāṣṭrakūṭa insignia.³