page_title: Lakkundi
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Lakkundi / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Lakkundi Temple Source nad Author: Manjunath Doddamani, Gajendragad / Hubli, Karnataka(North), India
context_page_description: Lakkundi in Gadag District of Karnataka is a tiny village on the way to Hampi from Hubballi. Lakkundi 11 km from Gadag in the east. It is 14 km from Dambal and 25 km from Mahadeva Temple.
  Lakkundi, is full of ruined temples like Mallikarjuna, Virabhadra, Manikeshwara, Nanneshwara, Lakshminarayana, Someshwara, Nilakanteshwara and many more.
  Lakkundi is a place of antiquarian interest with as many as 50 temples, 101 stepped wells and 29 inscriptions, spread over the period of the later Chalukyas, Kalachuris, Seuna and the Hoysalas. A great center of Kalyani Chalukyas art, there are several temples of note here. Among them the Kasivisvesvara temple, Lakkundi is the most ornate and elaborately furnished. There is also the Brahma Jinalaya, a Jain temple, the largest and oldest shrine at Lakkundi. There is sculpture gallery maintained by the ASI.
  Lakkundi also has a Darga of Zindeshah Wali.
context_section_description: Lakkundi is known for the temple architecture and Danachintamani Attimabbe (patronage for Kannada literature and Jainism).
  Other name for Lakkundi was called as LokkiGundi in the inscriptions.
  Lakkundi was ruled by later Chalukyas, Kalachuris, Seuna and the Hoysalas. The Chalukyas who wrested power from the Rashtrakutas (9th-10th centuries), made Kalyani their capital. Nothing remains of this city now. Most of the later Chalukya
  temples are preserved in Lakkundi. The Jain temple at Lakkundi near Gadag forms the next step in the development of Kalyani Chalukyas style introducing a greater ornamental effect in the treatment of the surface.
  In the 12th century, the Kalyani Chalukyas style of architecture reaches its maturity and culmination. Kasivisvesvara temple, Lakkundi, Mallikarjuna at Kuruvatii and Mahadeva Temple (Itagi) are the finest examples produced by the later Chalukya architects. The architecture of the Kalyani Chalukyas of Kalyani are said to be a link between those of the early Chalukyas of Badami and the Hoysalas who succeeded them.
caption: Nanneshwara Temple at Lakkundi
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