High medieval · Hindu · India

Lakshmi Devi Temple

ದೊಡ್ಡಗದ್ದವಳ್ಳಿ

Doddagaddavalli, Karnataka · 13.0960°, 76.0039°

MahalakshmiHoysalaHoysala

Sacred since

1113 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

c. 1113 (Hoysala)

Hoysala

History & significance

A soapstone shrine completed about 1113 by the merchant Kalhana Ravuta and his wife Sahaja Devi in the reign of Hoysala king Vishnuvardhana, it is one of the earliest dated Hoysala temples and ranges four sanctums - Mahalakshmi, Kali, Shiva and Vishnu - around a shared hall inside a nine-shrine compound.

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