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Sangameshwara Temple - PATTADAKAL
This is a huge complex of temples attractively located next to the river, which may have been used in rituals. Entering the complex is the Jambulinga Temple, its shikhara recalling the temples of Bhubaneshwar (Orissa) with a projecting horseshoe arch bearing a figure of dancing Shiva. Next to it is the Galaganatha Temple unlike anything else in the region.
The conical shikhara is like the (north Indian) nagara style with horizontal layers separated by tiny cushion-like motifs. Compare this temple roof with the shikharas of the next two temples, which are based on the southern Indian temple shikhara format. These two temples (that link Kanchipuram and Ellora, though separated by a few hundred kilometers), have tiered pyramidal, not conical, roofs made up of separate levels decorated with an arrangement of miniature temple replicas.
A historical inscription here records that the temples were built in the time of Vikramaditya II to commemorate his victory over the Palavers of Kanchipuram in the eighth century. His two wives, Lokeshvara, may have built them and Trailokeshvara, whose names these temples originally bore. The Virupaksha Temple has a wonderful Nandi porch in front, a porch leading into a pillared hall, and the garbha griha at the rear end of the building. Around the temple walls are some very high quality sculptures set inside little niches.
The sculptures (within and on the exterior wall), as well as the architecture here, mark an obvious advance of ideas and skills from those of some of the earlier shrines.
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