🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Talagunda
Kadamba (345–540 CE) with Shatavahana precursor · Kadamba (Karnataka early historic)
455 CE Sanskrit pillar—longest early Karnataka (16 lines, Mayurasharma vita)—with 2-ha Kadamba hillock settlement.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Hampi — Vittala Ancillary Musical Pillar (Vijayanagara)
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Hampi — Vittala Ancillary Musical Pillar (Vijayanagara) in Karnataka, Vijayanagara, Hampi, India is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple comp…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Pattadakal Temple Complex
Early Chalukya 7th–8th century CE, peak 740–760 CE · Hindu (Shaiva, Vaishnava) under Chalukya Vikramaditya II
Chalukya structural temples laboratory fusing Nagara and Dravida shikhara styles.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Badami Cave Temples
Early Chalukya, 6th–7th century CE · Hindu and Jain under Early Chalukya dynasty
Four 6th-c. Chalukya sandstone cave temples at Vatapi with Nataraja and Vishnu iconography.