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It is a historically important town located 27 km west of the taluk headquarters, Chincholi. It is famous for the Ramalingeshwara temple located on a low spot about one and a half km south of the town. Two inscriptions have been reported from here so far, of which the inscription of 918, belonging to the rule of the Rashtrakutas near the Jumma Masjid, is very inaccurate and tells about the fact that Chandiga installed the Aditya Deva in Morghe and donated 300 matras of land to Balachandra Bhatara for its worship. The inscribed Ramnath temple is the present-day beautiful Ramalingeshwara temple. This temple, facing east, has a spacious sanctum sanctorum of polygonal Thulavinyasa on a high pedestal, an open antarala and navarangas. There is a Shivalinga in the sanctum sanctorum, its door is in the shape of a five-branched tree, and there is a beautiful moonstone near the threshold. There are Ganapati in both the deva koshtakas in the inner sanctum. Of the four deva koshtakas in the navaranga, only two have sculptures of Sapta Matruka and Mahishamardini. On the four pillars in the middle of the navaranga, there are beautiful relief carvings of Nataraja, Brahma, Vishnu, Saraswati, Bhairavi, Ganapati, Ugra Narasimha, Surya, Bhikshatana Murti, and a dancer. There are Kakshasanas along the edge of the navaranga, and there is access from three sides. In the mantapa on the right of the navaranga, there is a seated sculpture of Malachi. There are deva koshtakas in three directions on the outer wall of the sanctum sanctorum, and these have sculptures of Brahma, Maheshwara, and Vishnu. The sanctum sanctorum wall is plain, standing on a beautiful auttareya (ground) peak, with Amla Shila and Sukanasa. This temple, which is unique in the district, has three pits on the left side towards the east, one of which contains Anantha Padmanabha, two Sthanakas and a sculpture of a seated Vishnu. The fair of this deity is held on the day of Ram Navami. It is a historically important town located 55 km from the taluk headquarters Jewargi, 40 km from Shahapur, 42 km southeast of Sindagi, and about four km southwest of Nagarahalli Tanda cross road on the Sindagi-Shahapur road. According to legend, the capital of Chandrahasan was Kuntalpura.