The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c9.7

c9.7

The temple must have been built some time before this column was raised, else some mention would have been made of its erection in this inscription, and such a column with its carefully fluted sides and well cut capital would never have been set up before a meaner structure which may have preceded this one. Had the latter been the case it must have been in a very bad state of repair to need a new building almost immediately after this grant had been made; and it could not possibly have been long after as the style of the present temple shews. It is quite possible, then, that the temple may have been built as early as the reign of Pulikēśin.