The site

The Badami cave temples are a complex of Buddhist, Hindu and Jain shrines cut into soft sandstone cliffs at Badami in northern Karnataka, India, the earliest dating from the 6th century. Carved under the early Chalukya dynasty, whose capital of Vatapi stood here, they are landmark examples of Indian rock-cut architecture. Among the earliest Hindu temples in the Deccan, they helped make the Malaprabha valley a cradle of Indian temple building.

Field notes

civilizations

Ancient India (Gupta)

types

Temple

occupied

550 CE — 700 CE

country

India