A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.112

c8.112

The Hoysalesvara and several other buildings of its class are twin temples consisting of two distinct shrines set side by side and joined together. The beautiful building at Somnāthpur (*ante*, Fig. 14) is a triple temple. A special feature of interest in these Mysore temples is the record of the names of the Kanarese artists, who executed individual statues. At Belūr there are twelve such signatures, and at the Hoysalesvara fourteen, all different. Eight signatures on the Somnāthpur temple have been noted, among them that of Mallitamma, who executed forty images.¹