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Tour To Cave Temples
Badami situated in North Karnataka, the Capital of the Early Chalukyas. It is marked for its gorgeous carved cave temples, artificial lake, Museme & rock-cut into the cliff face of a red sandstone hill, of the 6th & 7th Centuries.
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It is picturesquely located at the mouth of a ravine between two rocky hills. Its all four cave temples - all hewn out of sandstone on the cliff of a hill. They display the full range of religious sects which have developed in India. Two of them are dedicated to Vishnu, one to Shiva and the fourth is a Jain temple.
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The first three belong to the Vedic faith and the fourth and usual cave is the only.
Buddhist temple in Badami.The cave temples of Badami which date back to 600 and 700 A.D. are engraved out of sandstone hills. Each has a sanctum, a hall, an open verandah and pillars. What makes these cave temples extraordinary, are the large number of fine carvings and sculptures.
One of the various masterpieces to be found in these caves is the well-known, 18-armed Nataraja (Shiva) who if observed closely, strikes 81 poses. Cave 4, the last cave, is the only Jain Temple in Karnataka. The 24th Tirthankara- Mahavira is seated in a uniquely relaxed pose here, against a cushion in the inner sanctum.
On the other bank of the earliest Bhutnatha Lake, straddling whose shores the caves stand is the shrine of Nagamma, the local serpent goddess, within a huge tamarind tree. Nearby, are two Shiva temples, which deify Him as Bhutanatha, God of Souls. Within the inner sanctum, on the edge of the water, He sits in a rare pose, leaning back, in all his overwhelming majesty.
The caves found here are as follows
Cave 1 : The first cave made of red sandstone, dates back to 578 A.D. and was probably the first to be carved. One has to climb up 40 odd steps to reach the colonnaded verandah, a hall with numerous pillars and a square shaped sanctum hollowed in the control back wall.
Cave 2 : Dedicated to lord Vishnu depicted here as a dwarf or 'Trivikrama' of awesome dimensions with one foot mastering the Earth and the other the sky, the second cave is atop a sandstone hill.
Cave 3 : Still going higher up one comes across this cave antedating 578 A.D. The facade of the cave is nearly 70 feet wide, on the plinth one can see the carvings of ganas Tour To Cave Temples. The sheer artistry and sculptural genius makes this cave the highlight of Deccan art.
Cave 4 : The only Jain cave, the construction of Cave four started in the 6th century and completed after nearly 100 years later then the earlier three caves.
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