Ksheerarama (Ksheera Ramalingeswara Swamy Temple), Palakollu

Wikipedia's article on the Pancharama Kshetras summarises the temple's dating. The temple is traditionally associated with the Eastern Chalukya king Narendra Mrugaraja (Vijayaditya), who, according to the Edarupalli copper-plate grant, built a Shiva temple after fighting 108 battles. Forty-six inscriptions have been recorded on the temple, the earliest dated 1156 CE and the latest 1640 CE, and on that evidence the present temple is believed to date from the 11th century.

Wikipedia's article on Ksheerarama itself attributes the construction to the Chalukya king Bhima in the 9th century and gives a sequence of later additions: the enclosure wall (prakara) designed by Velupathi in the 10th century, the gopuram built under the direction of Alladu Reddy in the 14th century, and a kalyana mandapam and a shrine of eight-armed Lakshmi Narayana in the 17th century. The historian K. V. Soundara Rajan, cited there, attributed the Pancharama shrines to Chalukya Bhima I, though Wikipedia notes there is no firm evidence that all five were built by him. These accounts are not fully consistent, so dates should be read as approximate.

Architecture and sacred features

The gopuram rises in nine storeys and is described by Wikipedia as one of the tallest temple towers in Andhra Pradesh. Swarajya describes the linga as milky white and the mandapa as having 72 black stone pillars. Unlike the other Pancharama temples, which have two-storeyed shrines with very large lingas, Wikipedia's Pancharama article describes Palakollu's shrine as single-storeyed with a small linga.

Wikipedia lists sub-shrines around the sanctum, including those of Gokarneswara, Ganesha, Kartikeya and Vishnu, with Nandi facing the main deity, and a large number of other shrines in the complex, among them Surya, Parvati, Lakshmi, Durga, Veerabhadra and the Matrikas.