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Mallikarjuna Temple at Kuruvatti is very famous. The Mallikarjuna Temple is a Late Chalukya temple from the late 10th Century. It consists of a sanctuary and a mandapa or hall with three porches and faces east. The sanctuary is roofed by a multi-storey square tower and has preserved the original kalasa, the pot finial. The outer walls have long wall panels decorated with miniature temple towers surrounded by makara, aquatic monsters, very elaboartely carved. The icons inside the three niches of the sanctuary are damaged.