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Badami through time

Now Badami, Bagalkot district, Karnataka

Also known as: Vatapi (the ancient name)

  1. Theme 12d · 543 to 1200 CE; the Hoysalas and Yadavas to 1346

    The Deccan: Chalukyas to Yadavas

    Vatapi, the Chalukya capital, with four rock cut caves; sacked by Narasimhavarman I about 642

  2. Theme 12a · 550 to 1200 CE

    Understanding early medieval India

    Four rock cut caves of the Chalukyas of Badami, 6th to 7th century: Shaiva, two Vaishnava and Jain