Ranganathaswamy Temple, Nirthadi

Ranganatha Swamy Temple
Hindu temple
Ranganatha Swamy temple (1698 AD) Chitradurga district 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. The monument is protected by the Karnataka state division of Archaeological Survey of India.

Gallery

• Kannada inscription (1698 AD) at the Ranganathaswamy temple at Nirthadi in Chitradurga district.JPG

  Kannada inscription (1698 AD) describing the destruction of the original temple by the armies of Aurangzeb and its reconstruction by Baramappa Nayaka

• Entrance to Ranganatha Swamy temple at Neerthadi.JPG

  Entrance mukhamantapa to Ranganatha Swamy temple at Neerthadi

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  Yali pillars at the entrance of Ranganatha Swamy temple at Neerthadi

• Molding frieze and relief at Ranganathaswamy temple in Neerthadi village of Chitradurga district.JPG

  Molding frieze and relief at Ranganathaswamy temple in Neerthadi village of Chitradurga district

References

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