500 CE – 800 CE · 3 sites
540 CE – 700 CE
Four sandstone cave temples cut above Agastya Lake at Badami (ancient Vatapi), the Early Chalukya capital in Karnataka. Cave 3 carries a 578 CE inscription of Mangalesha.
650 CE – 760 CE
An Early Chalukya coronation and temple ensemble on the Malaprabha River in Karnataka, mixing northern nagara and southern dravida towers, inscribed by UNESCO in 1987.
500 CE – 800 CE
An Early Chalukya temple town on the Malaprabha in Karnataka, with more than a hundred shrines including the apsidal Durga temple — a field school for 6th–8th century Deccan architecture.
