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 432 CHALUKYAN STYLE. BOOK IV. elaborately carved ; and the dome of the mandap is supported by four pillars also equally richly chiselled. Spanning the two slender pillars in front of the antechamber or antarala is a frieze, 8 ft. in length and between 3 and 4 ft. in height, richly carved with unrivalled care though now damaged. And at the entrance of the shrine is a doorstep perhaps the most beautiful in design in any temple in Western India. This temple was perhaps one of the latest, designed late in the I2th century, before the Muhammadan raids put an end to temple building. Lastly, about 9 miles north from Chaudadampur, at the sacred junction of the Varada with the Tungabhadra, in the small village of Galaganath is another Chalukya temple, dedicated to Galagej-vara (Plate XVI.). It is built of black granite, and its appearance is striking owing to the base of the shrine or vimana being entirely surrounded by a peculiar stepped abutment that looks somewhat like an afterthought, and is quite out of place as an architectural feature. Had it been below the shrine walls it might have been contrived to add dignity to the tower ; but as it is it gives the whole spire a much more pyramidal form than in other temples, and it is not elegant. It may be, however, that, to prevent the sinking of the foundations in deep sandy soil, the base was extended, at a later date, to great thickness to support the superincumbent weight of the .rikhara. Otherwise, though of no great dimensions about 80 ft. by 40 over all this temple is a good example of the period when it was erected, or about the first half of the 1 1 th century. HANAMKONDA AND WORANGAL. When the Haidarabad or Nizam's territory has been examined and completely surveyed, we shall probably be able to trace all the steps by which earlier examples developed into the metropolitan temple of Anamkond or Hanamkonda, the old capital, 4 miles north-west of Orangal or Worangal fort. According to an inscription on it, this temple was erected in A.D. II62, 1 by Pratapa Rudra, who, though not a Chalukya in blood, but a Ganapatiya or Kakatfya, had succeeded to their possessions and their style. The temple itself is triple, having three shrines of very considerable dimensions, dedicated to Siva, Vishnu, and Surya, arranged round a central hall. In front of this temple is a great mandapa or portico, supported on pillars, of which one hundred and thirty-two are free standing, disposed in a varied pattern, but without any sign of the octagonal arrangement for a dome. Between this portico and the temple was the pavilion for the 1 ' Indian Antiquary,' vol. xi. pp. gff.