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Badami - Karnataka

Badami, formerly known as Vatapi, is a town and headquarters of a taluk by the same name, in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, India. It was the regal capital of the Badami Chalukyas from 540 to 757 AD. It is famous for its rock cut structural temples. It is located in a ravine at the foot of a rugged, red sandstone outcrop that surrounds Agastya lake. Badami has been selected as one of the heritage cities for HRIDAY - Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana scheme of Government of India.Badami has eighteen inscriptions, among them some inscriptions are important. The first Sanskrit inscription in old Kannada script, on a hillock dates back to 543 CE, from the period of Pulakeshin I (Vallabheswara), the second is the 578 CE cave inscription of Mangalesha in Kannada language and script and the third is the Kappe Arabhatta records, the earliest available Kannada poetry in tripadi (three line) metre.One inscription near the Bhuthanatha temple also has inscriptions dating back to the 12th century in Jain rock-cut temple dedicated to the Tirtankara Adinatha.The historic sites in Badami are Agastya lake, Bhutanatha group of temples facing the Badami tank ,Vishnu seated on Adishesha ,Brahma on Hamsa in Cave 3 ceiling ,Bahubali in cave 4 ,Jain Parshvanatha in cave 4 ,Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma in a small rock carving monument ,Yellamma temple at Badami, early phase construction-11th century ,Mosque in Badami 

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