The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c8.s5.2

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As already mentioned, this temple has a spire in the northern style, but its details are more archaic-looking than in that of the Durga temple. It is interesting to compare it with the temple of Paraśurāmēśvara at Bhuvanēśvara in Orissa.¹ There is a great similarity between the two. Dr. Fergusson, in his first edition of his *History of Indian and Eastern Architecture*, was inclined to place the tower and cella of the latter at about A.D. 450, the *maṇḍapa* or hall being a little later. In the revised edition Dr. Burgess has brought the date down to the seventh or eighth century, but I think this too low an estimate. The outline of the tower has an older look than the Aihoḷe one, though in its details, the latter is simpler and heavier-looking. But, in judging the age of these temples, local peculiarities have to be taken into account as much as other matters.