Famous Temple in Manvi Taluk, Raichur

In Manvi besides the temples of Ramashimha and Venkateshwara there is a temple of Marothi which is on a hill to the west of the town. Besides this temple is a large slab of stone having a ling Kannada inscription. A similar inscription is near a well on the ruined fort.

Hampi the Tourist Place in Raichur District:

Anagundi recalls the days of the great Vijayanagar Kingdom, for just across the Tungabhadra in Hampi, the ruined capital of the forgotten Empire – an empire which has been praised in glowing terms evening Thousand and One Nights which gives a graphic description of the splendour of Vijayanager. Rajas of Anegundi are lineal decendants of the kings of Vijayanagar. The Vijayanagar dynasty rules from 1336 to 1566. Anegundi means “Elephant-pit” being the place where the elephants of the Vijayanagar kings were kept. The Ancient town of Anegundi which has also been identified by some scholars with Kong-Kien-na-pu-le Kunkanapure, of Hiuen Tsang is in a state of complete ruin now, the remains of magnificent buildings of the vijayanagar dynasty are still tracable and there are fine specimens of in the pillars of the Onch-Appa-Matha and sculptures appear in relief on the surface of the pillars and are similar in design and workmanship to the pillars in the Huvina Hadgetta temple in the Bellary District. The ceiling of the Oncha Appa Matha has also some painting which consists of devices still in vogue in Rajputana and Northern India. In one panel there is a figure of Siva with a long beard riding on five female acrobats who joined themselves in the form of an elephant. In another panel the same diety is riding on group of five women who have united themselves together in the form of horse. There is also a palki formed of women in the same style. The outlines of the figure.

CHANDERABANDA ROCK JAINA CANAESE

1. Svasti (1) Sri-Saka-Varisha entu-nuramuraneya varisha.
2. Dandu Kundakund-anuvayada Ekachattugada-Bhatarara sishyar
3. Sri Sarvvanandi Bhatarar-ill-ildu(u)raggantirtthnakkam-upakari-gal-agi.
4. Pala-kalan-tapamgeydu sanyananan-nontu mudipidar
5. Anavarata-sastra-dana-pravimala-charitra-jala-dharais-chitram
6. duriata-nidagha-vighatam-kuryyat sri Sarvanandindrah(11) Mamgalam(11)

TRANSLATION

Hail: In the prosperous SAKA YEAR EIGHT HUNDRED AND THREE the illustrious Sarvanandi Bhatara, the disciple of Ekachattuguda – Bhatara belonging to the Kundakunda lineage, having alighted here, having become a benefactor to the village (ur) and to the holy spot (tirtha) having made penance for a long time, and having vowed renunciation, completed the vrata)

May the glorious sarvanandindra wonderfully effect the destruction, of the drought or sin by the clouds (or waters ?) of (his) ceaseless teachings and (his) absolutely pure conduct.

Prosperity.

Are weak and the colours are insipid. They probably belong to the17th Century.

Another Famous Temple in ITAGI, Raichur District:

Now I shall take the reader to Itagi, Itagi is a small village in Raichur District some three miles to the South of Benni-koppa Railway station between Koppal and Gadag. The Mahadeva Temple situated in the village is one of the finest Chalukyan Temple and fully justifies the title “Emperor among Temples” (Devalaya Chakravarti) given to it by the founder. The Plan of the temple compromises a shrine with a n ante-chamber, a school hall with porches oneither side of it towards the north and south, and a pillared hall which is open at the side. The Temple faces east, and the great open hall at this end was originally supported upon sixty eight pillars. The slabs of the ceiling of the middle apartment of the hall have been carved into a rich arrangements of hanging arabesque folioge and makaras which spring from the jaws of Kintimukha mask. The convolutions of the design with their cicling exercences and bewildering whorls form a most luxuriant pattern. Beautiful wreaths of filigree and repeated as ornament in the recessed panel of the wall below and in tow places, one on the either side of the shrine, serve as window frames, the spaces between the rolls forming the lights. The three principal niches on the shrine on walls boldly accentuated by their deep projecting cornices, are now empty, their images having disappeared. The beautiful inscription of flowing Kannada verse set up in a hall adjacent to the temple states that this temple was built in A.D. 1112 by Mahadeva a general of the Dandapanayaka of the Western Chalukya King, Tribhuvanamalla Vikramadity VI of Kalyani. This temple is almost unrivalled of its structure, style and its luxuriant decorative detail.

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