Kambadahalli

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  Mahaveer Kumar

  Panchakuta Basadi (or Panchakoota Basadi) is located in the Kambadahalli village of the Mandya district, Karnataka state, in southwestern India. It is one of the finest examples of South Indian Dravidian architecture of the Western Ganga variety, related to the Jain faith and iconography.[1][2] According to the historian K.R. Srinivasan, the temple complex, which was built by the kings of the Western Ganga Dynasty is assignable to the period 900-1000 CE. The historian Sarma however assigns an earlier date of 8th century, based on traces of early Pallava-Pandya and Chalukya-Pallava influences.[3] Kambadahalli (whose name in the Kannada language literally translates to "pillar village") which is located 18 km from the famous Jain heritage town of Shravanabelagola, on the Mandya-Shravanabelagola highway, gets its name from the Brahmadeva pillar (Manasthambha) erected in front of the temple complex.[4] From inscriptions, it is known that the temple complex has been renovated during later centuries, including the during the rule of the Hoysala Empire.[5] The monument is protected by the Archeological Survey of India as a "national monument". Srinivasan describes it as a "landmark in South India architecture".

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