Later Chola Temples
by S. R. Balasubrahmanyam | 1979 | 143,852 words
This volume of Chola Temples covers Kulottunga I to Rajendra III in the timeframe A.D. 1070-1280. The Cholas of Southern India left a remarkable stamp in the history of Indian architecture and sculpture. Besides that, the Chola dynasty was a successful ruling dynasty even conquering overseas regions....
Temples in Sindhuvalli
Sindhuvalli is a small village in the Nanjangud taluk of the Mysore district in the Karnataka State. There is a local temple dedicated to Sankaresvara. When originally constructed, it went under the name of Sri Mulasthanam Udaiyar temple.
Sankaresvara (Mulasthanam Udaiyar) temple
On a stone north of the temple, there is an incomplete inscription which is dated in. Saka era 1030 equivalent to a.d. 1108, which says that in the 37th year of the reign of Kulottunga Choladeva, one Satya Papakshaya Gamunda, who was Mutta Gamunda, the son of... in Karai nadu of Gangaikondachola valanadu, in Mudikondachola mandala, caused a temple to be erected for Mulasthanam Udaiyar and a sluice to be constructed in the tank bund (Epi. Car., Mysore, Nanjangud, no. 51).
Thus, this temple is a foundation of the 38th regnal year of Kulottunga I (ajd. 1108).