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also in AP and TN, where the Jaina temples built during the pre and post Rāştrakūta period, do not exist now. However, even in such places, broken or intact images of Jina, Yaksas, makara toraņa, arch spewed from the mouths of opposed makaras, etc are reported. Sometimes, except for the statement made in an inscription, none of the Jaina vestiges are found, either in the proper village or in the nearby vicinity. It is not unusal that the slabs containing epigraphs being misplaced/destroyed/misused.
8.1.9. Some Jaina shrines and stray sculptures of this period have been discovered by me in Gulbarga Dt and other places. For want of sufficient knowledge, of the temples and monuments, by way of inscriptional evidence or literary source, any claims of these edifices are largely based on the existing architectural features. Lack of availability of historical written documents has made the task of chroniclers difficult in furnishing the nature of imperial connection with these places and sanctuaries. Albeit, there is no reason to doubt that it rests upon definite architectural basis.
8.2. A detailed and exhaustive research would reveal that during the eon of the Rāstrakūta dynasty Jaina and other temples were founded throughout their vast territory and temple building activity had become a regular phenomenon. Apart from commissioning new Jaina shrines, it is noteworthy, that the old Jaina sanctuaries and cloisters that were in subsistence from the time of the Calukyas of Bādāmi (Vātāpi) continued to be nursed and restored. Aihole, Barkāpura, Mulgunda Hallūr, Hombuja, Koppaļa, Pattadakal, Ponnugunda (Hungund), Puligere, Sravanabelagoļa - were some of the early Jaina settlements that persisted to glow and bloom.
8.2.1. "That the early Chalukya architecture had considerable impact on the Rashtrakuta architecture cannot
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