The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c8.s7.1

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Another old temple of the same plan and style as the last, except that it has three pillars on each side of the nave instead of two, is situated in Survey No. 268 near the temple of Galagnātha (No. 10). The śikhara or tower is totally different, being far more archaic looking and decidedly clumsy. It gives one the idea of an early stage in the evolution of the northern style of tower, but this is not so, for, on examining it closely, it is found to be nothing more than a repetition, layer upon layer, diminishing to the top, of the flat roof over the maṇḍapa or hall of these temples. Compare it with the edge of the roofing of Huchchimalli-Guḍi (Plate XIX). The same thing, more elaborated, is seen on the temples, of a later period, behind the Desai's house, in the village (Plate XXV), and on the temples on the north side of the lake at Bādāmi. It became an ordinary style of tower, and a still later example of it is that of the Jaina temple in the fort at Belgaum (Plate CXXXV).