Nannesvara Temple, Lakkundi

Early Western Chalukyan prototype temple in a village dense with monuments.

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History

Nannesvara at Lakkundi, Gadag, is an early Western Chalukya temple that helped set the model for later Kalyani Chalukya architecture. Lakkundi is dense with shrines; this one remains an important Shaiva prototype for students of Karnataka stone-craft.

Legends

• Inscriptions remember merchant and royal gifts; the temple was a civic as well as sacred centre of medieval Lakkundi.