Ranganathaswamy Temple, Nirthadi

Ranganatha Swamy Temple
Hindu temple

Ranganatha Swamy temple (1698 AD) Chitradurga district
Country  India
State Karnataka
District Chitradurga District
Languages
  Official Kannada
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)

The Ranganatha Swamy Temple at Nirthadi (also spelt Neerthadi or Niratadi), is a post-Vijayanagara Empire re-construction. Nirthadi is a village in the Chitradurga 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]

Notes

  1. Epigraphia Carnatica: Inscriptions in the Chitaldroog District, Benjamin Lewis Rice, volumn 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.

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