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This is one of several temples at Badami, in the state of Karnataka, southwest India. Badami was the capital of the Chalukya empire, founded in the 6th century BC by Pulakeshin I. The free-standing temples are examples of their pioneering architectural style, but the site is most famous for the four cave temples carved into the sandstone hills.

Temple hewn out of rock. The Great and Small Temples at Abu Simbel, Egypt, dating from about 1301 BC (now relocated), were carved out of the mountainside. In India there are notable Buddhist rock-hewn temples at Ajanta and Karli, and Hindu temples at Badami and Elephanta.



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