Badami Chalukya architecture
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Badami Chalukya architecture is a style in Hindu temple architecture that evolved in the 5th – 8th centuries CE in the Malaprabha river basin, in the present-day Bagalkot district of Karnataka state o
Sangameshvara temple, Pattadakal built in 725
Cave temple at Badami Karnataka
Bhutanatha temple complex
Virupaksha temple at Pattadakal
Badami cave temples
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The Badami cave temples are a complex of Buddhist, Hindu and Jain cave temples located in Badami, a town in the Bagalkot district in northern part of Karnataka, India. The caves are important examples
Badami Chalukya architecture
…Nagara and Dravidian styles. The style includes two types of monuments: rock cut halls or "cave temples", and "structural" temples, built above ground. Badami cave temples have rock-cut halls with three basic features: pillared veranda, columned hall and a sanctum cut out deep into rock. Early experiments in rock-cut halls…
Vishnu image in Badami cave 3
Caves on the cliff above Agastya Lake
Epigraphy in the Kannada language (c. 578) dating the carving of Cave 3
Entrance to Cave 1