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HALEBID , a See also:village in See also:Mysore See also:state, See also:southern See also:India; pop . (1901), 1524 . The name means " old See also:capital," being the site of Dorasamudra, the capital of the Hoysala See also:dynasty founded See also:early in the 11th See also:century . In 1310 and again in 1326 it was taken and plundered by the first See also:Mahommedan invader of southern India . Two temples, still See also:standing, though never completed and greatly ruined, are regarded as the finest examples of the elaborately carved Chalukyan See also:style of See also:architecture . |
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