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 CHAP. III. JAINA STRUCTURAL TEMPLES. CHAPTER III. JAINA STRUCTURAL TEMPLES. CONTENTS. Lakkundi Palitana Girnar Mount Abu Parasnath Ranpur- Gwaliar Khajuraho Chitor. THE temples distinctively Jaina in the Dharwar districts are not now numerous, yet there are sufficient remains at Belgaum, Pattadakal, Aihole, 1 and at Annigeri, Dambal, Lakkundi, and other places, to prove that Jainism was at one time very influential. Those at Pattadakal and Aihole have been briefly noticed above (vol. i., pp. 319, 356). It has been supposed that it was probably owing to a succession of able Digambara Jaina teachers, in this Kanarese country, during the 8th and 9th centuries, and who were favoured by the Rashtrakuta kings of Malkhed, that Buddhism waned in these districts, and finally disappeared. Respecting the temples, we learn that those at Annigeri probably erected in the loth century with others in Mysore, were burnt by Rajendradeva Chola about the middle of the nth century, and were restored by a local governor about 10/0. One of the most entire of the Jaina Temples is at Lakkundi, a village about 7 miles east-south-east from Gadag, in Dharwar district 2 From the plan, Woodcut No. 276, it will be seen that it is not large. Though somewhat severe for a Chalukyan temple, it is exceedingly well proportioned. The .rikhara, as seen in the photograph, Plate XIX., is entire and presents the appearance of a Dravidian work, and the head of the 1 ' Archaeological Survey of Western India: Belgaum and Kaladgi,' pp. 1-5, 12-13, 25-26, 35 and 37, where descrip- tions and plans of the temples at these places are given. 2 In 1885 it was noted that all the temples here were being rapidly destroyed by trees on their roofs, and by the materials being carried off for building purposes ; and in the end of 1897 the statement was repeated in the 'Revised Lists of Antiquarian Remains in Bombay Presidency.' The Jaina temple has since been re-occupied ; the others are now being looked after by the Archaeological Survey.