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Alampur Papanasi Temples

Alampur, Jogulamba Gadwal district, Telangana · 15.8716°, 78.1224°

Shiva (as the dancing Natesha), with shrines to Devi and VishnuRashtrakuta and later ChalukyaNagara
Sacred since
800 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
9th-11th c. (Rashtrakuta and Chalukya)
Rashtrakuta and later Chalukya

History & significance

A cluster of twenty-three Nagara-plan shrines at Alampur raised between the 9th and 11th centuries under the Rashtrakutas and later Chalukyas. With the neighbouring Navabrahma temples they formed the Brahmeshvara tirtha, a Kalamukha and Pashupata Shaiva centre of wide regional influence until the Delhi Sultanate raids of the 14th-15th centuries; the Archaeological Survey of India shifted the group to higher ground after 1980 to save it from the Srisailam reservoir.

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Sources

coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-28 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Rashtrakuta and later Chalukya