About the Book: Badami Aihole Pattadakal
The town of Badami, the nearby villages of Aihole and Pattadakal and the
pilgrimage site of Mahakuta, in the Malprabha valley of central Karnataka, are
celebrated for their magnificent rock-cut shrines and structural temples. These
Hindu and Jain monuments are associated with the Early Chalukyas who reigned
over this part of the Deccan during the 6th8th centuries. Together with a
profusion of magnificent sculptures, mostly found in situ, these shrines and
temples may be considered among the earliest, best preserved vestiges of temple
art in India.
This guidebook, the first ever for the Badami region, is authored by a scholar
whose