Santara

The Santara, or Bhairarasa, were a Jain ruling house based at Karkala on the Karnataka coast. Their rajas were long feudatories of the Alupas and later of Vijayanagara.

At Karkala, King Veera Pandya raised a forty-two-foot monolith of Bahubali in 1432 and a Brahmadeva pillar in 1436; later rulers built the Chaturmukha Basadi in 1586. Invasions by the Nayakas of Keladi and then Hyder Ali ended the dynasty. Tipu Sultan annexed Karkala before it passed to the British.