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228 / The Rāstrakūtas and Jainism
8.4.4.1. The Sāntaligenād and the Mandalinād were two different administrative units serving as vassals under the same sovereigns like the Rāştrakūtas and Cālukyas of Kalyāņa. Ruling concurrently, these two neighbour states were related by matrimonial alliances. They are marked by striking similarities in their architecture [Nagarajaiah, Hampa : The Later Gangas - Mandali Thousand : 1999-B : 48-51). But, none of the architectural edifices, monuments or vestiges of the Rāştrakūţa period of Mandali Thousand has survived.
8.4.4.2. Of the numerous Sāntara structures located in Hombuja, their ancient metropolis, four temples and some loose displaced art pieces scattered inside the little township, belong to the times under consideration and exhibit affiliation to early and late Rāştrakūta type : i. Pārsvanātha basadi ii. Sūļe basadi iii. Makkaļa basadi iv. Bõgāra basadi
8.4.4.3. The Sāntara temples are the store house of a combination of the Ganga, the Cālukya (Bādāmi) and the Rāştrakūta styles. Prof. M. A. Dhaky has preferred to name it as Malnād style. Guddada basadi 'temple of the hill' olim Kāmajinālaya on the hillock, behind the modern temple complex, at Hombuja a forest-clad town, was founded in C. E. 897-98 by Vikrama Sāntara. It was built with Kapõtabandha adhisthāna in the typical Dravidian style of temple art. The dilapidated structure was dismantled recently, in the year 1958-60, because it was about to collapse. Albeit, Bahubali statue and other images and pillars of Guddada basadi are intact on the hill, and below, inside the temple and within the compound. An historically significant Bāhubali image, now in the newly built building, is dated
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