Image: Garuda pillar with Old Kannada inscription dated 1220 A.D of Kuvara Lakshma, a body guard of Hoysala King Veera Ballala II

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Description: Photograph taken by self (Dineshkannambadi) at Hoysaleswara Temple at Halebidu, Karnataka, India in July 2006. This garuda pillar, dated to around 1220 A.D., is a herostone (vira sasana) which glorifies Kuvara Lakshma, a general, minister and faithful body guard of Hoysala empire King Veera Ballala II. Source:Ancient India: Collected Essays on the Literary and Political History of Southern India, pp.388-389, Sakkottai Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Asian Educational Services, 1911, Madras, ISBN-81-206-1850-5
Title: Garuda pillar with Old Kannada inscription dated 1220 A.D of Kuvara Lakshma, a body guard of Hoysala King Veera Ballala II
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