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Ganagitti Temple

This neat and compact early structure is popularly called the Ganagitti temple (also spelt as Ganigitti temple) or 'The Oil-Woman Temple'. It is situated on the Kampli road, about 0.8 kilometres from the Travellers' Bungalow at Kamalapur and is on the way to Bhima's Gate. It is a Jain temple facing north and has a garbha-griha with an antarala ardha mantapa and a maha-mantapa with an attached sub-shrine facing east. The pillars are of the early heavybal variety. The stone superstructure is a stepped pyramid of six diminishing talas of plain horizontal slabs. The griva is square and the low square shikhara is domical. A lofty mana-stambha in front of the portico contains an inscription stating that the temple was built in AD1385 by Iruga, the minister of Bukka II, in the reign of Harihara II and that it was known as the Chaityalaya of Kunthu Jinanitha.

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