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About the Book:-The group of temples, illustrated in this work, is situated within a circuit of twelve miles radius, in the western portion of the Bellari district, wedged in by Haidarabad territory on the north and Maishr on the south. The Tungabhadra River, near which they are, forms the boundary on the west and north. If a circle of the diameter noted, is drawn on the map, the line passes through Huvina- hadagalli and Magala on the north, Kuruvatti and Halavagalu on the south-west, and Bagali on the east. Halavagalu is situated about five miles inside the line of the south circumference, and, a similar distance within that of the north-west. Another temple, in the same style, was seen at Sogi, five miles south-south-east from Huvinahadgalli. Harihar is situated within the Mandir boundaries and stands on the Tungabhadra river, fourteen miles south of Halavagalu. From it, a plan and a few details have been taken for comparison with the others. Only an arbitrary frontier divides this portion of Ballari from the adjoining province of Maishr, so that this group may be considered as an offshoot, or the outlying examples of the style which had one of its principal localities in the latter State. But though the principal known examples have their seat in Maishr, it is to the territory on the north that attention must be directed for the earliest works: for there, it has been pointed out, was situated the central seat of the Chalukyan power. About the Author:-Alexander Rea (17 October 1858 — 4 February 1924) was a British archaeologist who worked mainly in South British India. He is known for unearthing a sarcophagus from the hillocks of Pallavaram in Tamil Nadu. He was the first assistant, Archaeological Survey of South India in 1882. He worked as acting lecturer on Art and Geometry in the School of Arts. Madras, between 1888 to 1884. He was Professional Adviser to Government on the conservation of ancient monuments; Member for Archaeology on the Sub-Committee on the Pu