N. Ganesan wrote: > > Interested in the meaning of the Karnataka town, AihoLe. > Important Chalukya temple site and center of the merchant guilds > called maNigrAma. aihoLe < ayyAvoLe < Aryapura, according to Nundo Lal Dey, The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval India, London 1927. To me this seems convincing. Erik Seldeslachts