English: This stambha (pillar) is found in the Kasivisvesvara temple – also referred to as Kashi Vishveswara temple, Kasivisveswar temple, Kashi Vishvanatha temple, Kashivishwanathar temple – in Lakkundi, a small village-like town.

Location and history:

• The temple is located in the southern part of Lakkundi (close to Nanneshwara temple). It is about 12 kilometers southeast of Gadag-Betageri twin city, between Hampi and Goa. It can be reached by India's National Highway 67.
• Prior to the 14th-century, Lakkundi was a large, major historic city referred in pre-14th century texts and inscriptions as Lokkigundi – serving as a capital of the Hoysala dynasty. The city was destroyed in the Sultanate raids and wars that began in the 13th-century but rose from the ruins during the Vijayanagara Empire. The end of Vijayanagara Empire brought further social and political chaos to this region. Lakkundi was reduced to a galaxy of abandoned and mutilated ruins, spread over a cluster of small rural villages with a combined population of few thousand residents in the 19th-century.

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