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Pattadakal Temples at Pattadakal near Dharwar(Karnataka)

Deities: Virupaksha, Mallikarjuna, Sangameswara, Kasi Visweswara, Galaganatha

Both the Northern and Southern styles were used in building temples here in this early Chalukyan site. The Virupaksha, Mallikarjuna, Sangameswara and a Jain temple are in the Dravidian style while Jambulinga, Kasivisweswara & Galaganatha are in the Northern style. The Papanatha temple shows an attempt to combine the Northern & Southern styles. There are many temples in this site going back to the 7th cent. AD, both structural and excavated.Pattadakal is in the Southern portion of Bijapur District.

Access and Accomodation: Dharwar

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