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High medieval · Hindu · India
Doddabasappa Temple
ದೊಡ್ಡಬಸಪ್ಪ ದೇವಾಲಯ
Dambal, Gadag, Karnataka · 15.3281°, 75.8103°
Shiva (linga)Western ChalukyaWestern Chalukya
Sacred since
1100 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
12th c. (Western Chalukya)
Western Chalukya
History & significance
A twelfth-century Shiva temple of the Western Chalukya period, distinguished by an unusually elaborate twenty-four-pointed star-shaped plan carried without interruption through a seven-tiered dravida superstructure.