Heritage enthusiasts have discovered the remains of an ancient temple in Bengaluru\u00a0which is dated back to 1539 AD. It is a\u00a0mysterious engraved stone in a village near the city that led the explorers, including Dhanpal M, a bus driver with BMTC (Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation), to the interesting discovery.<\/p>\n
The stone has been standing in Jakkur\u00a0village for ages. But the importance of it was never realised until Dhanpal and his team explored the area. Following the stone and its inscriptions,\u00a0 the team went ahead for another search which led to the larger discovery.<\/p>\n
The finding led to the conclusion that inscription found on the stone was Allalasandra\u00a0Shaasana\u00a0which belonged to the temple of Lord Allalanatha\u00a0which once stood in that area. Archaeologists found that the temple was built by Sadashiva\u00a0Raya, the son-in-law of emperor\u00a0Krishnadevaraya, the great emperor of Vijayanagara.<\/p>\n
“It is a site with a compound wall. There were remnants of a temple and I reported this to the archaeology department. Three epigraphists\u00a0and researchers studied the pillars and came to a conclusion that this was where the Allalanatha\u00a0temple once stood. The area’s name Allalasandra\u00a0has been derived from this deity,” Dhanpal\u00a0told\u00a0Bangalore Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n Apart from the pillar-like stones, idols, a mantapa, broken veeragallu, a paanipeeta\u00a0(a plank on which a deity is kept in a temple) have also been discovered in the site, reports Bangalore Mirror.<\/p>\n A team of epigraphists\u00a0and researchers comprising KR Narasimhan, PV\u00a0Krishnamurthy\u00a0and S Karthik,\u00a0has deciphered the ancient inscriptions. They revealed that the Allalasandra\u00a0Shaasana\u00a0is one of the oldest inscriptions of Jakkur\u00a0that belonged to 975 AD.<\/p>\n “The hero stone\u00a0found in the temple site talks about a martyred brave soldier and calls the village Jakkiuru. If the temple premises are excavated, we will get more insights,” S Karthik\u00a0explained.<\/p>\n The archaeology department applauded Dhanpal’s enthusiasm that shed light on an important phase in the cultural heritage of the area and promised to take up further explorations in the area.<\/p>\n The director of the archaeological department, R Gopal\u00a0told Bangalore Mirror, “What has been found on the temple premises is new and an unpublished inscription of the veeragallu. The department will take up exploration of the temple basement after which excavation work will begin.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heritage enthusiasts have discovered the remains of an ancient temple in Bengaluru\u00a0which is dated back to 1539 AD. It is a\u00a0mysterious engraved stone in a village near the city that led the explorers, including Dhanpal M, a bus driver with BMTC (Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation), to the interesting discovery. The stone has been standing in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1730,2420,2257,2421],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}