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    The Durga temple is an early 8th-century Hindu temple located in Aihole, Karnataka, India. Originally dedicated to Surya, it has the most embellished...
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    Evolution of Temple Architecture – Aihole-Badami- Pattadakal, UNESCO (2015) Gary Michael Tartakov (1997). The Durga Temple at Aihole: A Historiographical...
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    to about the 5th century. It is located to the south of the Durga temple, Aihole. The temple shows clear signs of following early timber models, none of...
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    Durga Temple, Vijayawada Kapila Theertham Kodandarama Temple, Tirupati Konetirayala Temple, Keelapatla Kotappakonda Ksheerarama Kulandeshwara Temple Kumararama...
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    the coast of the Laccadive Sea and is also famous for the Murudeshwara Temple. The town has a railway station on the Mangalore–Mumbai Konkan railway route...
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    ASI India (2011) Carol Radcliffe Bolon (1985), The Durga Temple, Aihole, and the Saṅgameśvara Temple, KūḐavelli: A Sculptural Review, Ars Orientalis, The...
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  • Durga Mandir may refer to the following temples in India: Durga temple, Aihole, Karnataka Durga Temple, Baideshwar, Orissa Durga Temple, Motia, Orissa...
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    The Mangaladevi Temple is a Hindu temple at Bolara in the city of Mangalore in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is situated about three kilometres southwest...
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    The Buddhist chaitya hall always allowed a path for this, and the Durga temple, Aihole (7th or 8th century) is a famous Hindu example. The term is also...
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    of Aihole town's Durga temple and archaeological museum. The Aihole inscription is found on the eastern side-wall of the Meguti Jain temple. Aihoḷe – also...
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    Chaitya (category Buddhist temples)
    style in later temple decoration. The last stage of the freestanding chaitya hall temple may be exemplified by the Durga temple, Aihole, of the 7th or...
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    6th century and earlier such as in Aihole and Badami cave temples. The earliest historically verifiable Shiva temple at Chidambaram is traceable in inscriptions...
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    Durga (Sanskrit: दुर्गा, IAST: Durgā) is a major Hindu goddess, worshipped as a principal aspect of the mother goddess Mahadevi. She is associated with...
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    enemy of the Hindu goddess Durga. He has also argued that the tiger depicted in the seal could relate to the goddess Durga who is often depicted as riding...
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    Badami cave temples represent some of the earliest known examples of Hindu temples in the Deccan region. They along with the temples in Aihole transformed...
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    3 of the Badami cave temples was cut out in 578 CE, and Cave 1 is probably slightly earlier. Other examples are found in Aihole and Pattadakal. By about...
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    the cave temples. 2. Temples at Aihole Aihole is in the Southern portion of Bagalkot District. More than 100 temples are located in Aihole. Hindu structural...
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  • temple at Aihole was also built during his reign, by Ravikirrti, who composed the Aihole inscription engraved on the wall of this temple. The Aihole inscription...
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    Narasimha Jharni (category Hindu temples in Bidar district)
    Narasimha Jharni Temple (local kannada: ನರಸಿಂಹ ಝರನಿ), also known as Narasimha Jharni cave temple, is a temple located in Malkapur Road, NH 161B, Mangalpet...
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    boundary of a temple. The 5th-century Ladkhan Shiva Temple, in the Aihole Hindu-Jain-Buddhist temple site, in Karnataka. Plan of 5th-century temples in Eran...
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    Sun Temple Aihole Lad Khan Temple Huchiappayyagudi Temple Huchiappayya math Durga Temple Meguti Jain Temple Ravanaphadi Temple Gowda Temple Museum & Art...
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    spectrum of dravidian temple styles continued to develop from the fifth to the ninth century over the Chalukya era rule as evidenced in Aihole, Badami and Pattadakal...
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    the Durga Puja festival, and in Durga temples across India. Devi Mahatmyam means 'Glorification of the Goddess'. The text is also called Durga Saptaśati...
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    in Cave Temple, Mahabalipuram Mahishasura at Durga's foot in the Aihole Temple Durga is worshiped in her Mahishasuramardini form, during Durga Puja. Lakshmi...
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    Banashankari is the sixth incarnation of the warrior-goddess Durga. Historians have dated the original temple to the 7th century AD - the Kalyani Chalukya period...
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    Amalaka (category Hindu temple architecture)
    and reaches up to heaven through the top of the temple. Detached amalaka stone of the Durga Temple, Aihole, 7th century "Boxed" amalakas in the capitals...
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    in Aihole, Badami and Pattadakal. It is simpler than later Hoysala temples (including the Hoysaleswara temple at Halebidu and the Keshava temple at Somanathapura)...
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    Ratha is an apsidal temple, a relatively-uncommon Hindu design found in Aihole and elsewhere in India. The two-storey, Vesara-style temple is 16 feet (4.9 m)...
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    Garbhagriha (category Hindu temple architecture)
    set below the main floor level of the temple (see bottom inset image). The famous 7th-century Durga temple, Aihole also has a rounded apse at the garbagriha...
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    Hampi (redirect from Achyutaraya temple)
    Badami, Aihole to its north and stretching further south towards Belur and Halebidu had a rich tradition of building sophisticated Hindu temples with a...
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