Description
The group of temples, illustrated in this work, is situated within a circuit of twelve miles radius, in the western portion of the Bellari district, wedged in by Haidarabad territory on the north and Maishr on the south. The Tungabhadra River, near which they are, forms the boundary on the west and north. If a circle of the diameter noted, is drawn on the map, the line passes through Huvina hadagalli and Magala on the north, Kuruvatti and Halavagalu on the southwest, and Bagali on the east. Halavagalu is situated about five miles inside the line of the south circumference, and, a similar distance within that of the northwest. Another temple, in the same style, was seen at Sogi, five miles southsoutheast from Huvinahadgalli. Harihar is situated within the Mandir boundaries and stands on the Tungabhadra river, fourteen miles south of Halavagalu. From it, a plan and a few details have been taken for comparison with the others. Only an arbitrary frontier divides this portion of Ballari from the adjoining province of Maishr, so that this group may be considered as an offshoot, or the outlying examples of the style which had one of its principal localities in the latter State. But though the principal known examples have their seat in Maishr, it is to the territory on the north that attention must be directed for the earliest worksfor there, it has been pointed out, was situated the central seat of the Chalukyan power.
