Ranganathaswamy Temple, Nirthadi

The Ranganatha Swamy Temple at Nirthadi (also spelt Neerthadi or Niratadi), is a post-Vijayanagara Empire re-construction. Nirthadi is a village in the Davangere district of Karnataka state, India. According to noted historian and epigraphist Benjamin Lewis Rice, a Kannada language inscription dated 1698 AD in the temple premise describes the destruction of the original temple by the armies of Mogul emperor Aurangzeb in 1696 AD. The Chitradurga chief Baramappa Nayaka (r.1689–1721) rebuilt the temple in 1698 AD.[1] The monument is protected by the Karnataka state division of Archaeological Survey of India.[2]

Ranganatha Swamy Temple
Hindu temple
Ranganatha Swamy temple (1698 AD) Davangere district
Country India
StateKarnataka
DistrictDavangere District
Languages
 • OfficialKannada
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
  • Kannada inscription (1698 AD) describing the destruction of the original temple by the armies of Aurangzeb and its reconstruction by Baramappa Nayaka
  • Entrance mukhamantapa to Ranganatha Swamy temple at Neerthadi
  • Yali pillars at the entrance of Ranganatha Swamy temple at Neerthadi
  • Molding frieze and relief at Ranganathaswamy temple in Neerthadi village of Chitradurga district

Notes
  1. Epigraphia Carnatica: Inscriptions in the Chitaldroog District, Benjamin Lewis Rice, volume xi, Mysore Government Central Press, Carnatic (India) 1903. Chapter:List of Inscriptions classified and in chronological order, page 6, Dg. 164; Chapters: Introduction, p.32 and Translations of Inscriptions: Davangere Taluq, pp.82-83, Dg. 164
  2. "Alphabetical List of Protected Monuments-List of State Protected". Archaeological Survey of India, Government of India. Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts. Retrieved 21 November 2014.

References
  • Epigraphia Carnatica: Inscriptions in the Chitaldroog District, Benjamin Lewis Rice, volumn xi, Mysore Government Central Press, Carnatic (India) 1903.


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