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An 11th-century Shiva temple of Kalyani Chalukya era

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English: The Someswara temple is also referred to as Someshwara temple, Somesvara temple, Dharmeshwara temple, or Dharmesvara temple.
  • It is located to the immediate west of Doddabasappa temple, north of the village Dambal in Gadag district between Hampi and Goa. It is about 15 kilometers south-southeast of Lakkundi group of Jain and Hindu temples, and 105 kilometers west of UNESCO world heritage site of Hampi. It can be reached by State Highway 45 / 129, and is close to the National Highway 67.
  • Dambal was an important ancient town, one with its own fort, that is also referred to as Dharmapura and Dharmavolal in historic Hindu and Jain texts. A prosperous town, it was a center of education and monasteries. A number of stone inscriptions and texts state it to be the site of schools and monasteries of Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism by mid 1st millennium. All three major religious traditions were thriving in Dambal till about the 13th-century.
  • Dambal was destroyed in raids, looting and Muslim-Hindu wars that swept this region in and after the 13th-century as Sultanates attempt to establish themselves. By the 19th-century, Dambal was a forgotten village. Colonial era British officials and archaeologists visited Dambal in the second half of the 19th-century, finding the site to be full of mounds, ruined temples with forest growing over them. The Dambal area has many ruins, predominantly of Hindu and Jain traditions, as well as historic stepwells (Japada Bavi) and remnants of a fort. Two temples amongst these are significant to the history of Hindu architecture: the Dodda Basappa temple and the Somesvara temple.
  • The Somesvara temple is likely from about 1070–1080 CE, built during the Somesvara II reign.
  • It is a box-like temple with plain outer walls. It consists of an open ranga-mandapa (gathering hall), The notable pillars are well carved in the 11th-century Srikara and Bhadraka styles.
  • A small Nandi faces the Shiva-linga inside the square-plan sanctum.
This is ASI monument N-KA-D232.
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Author P. Madhusudan
Camera location15° 18′ 07.42″ N, 75° 46′ 16.32″ E  Heading=0° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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