Badami Cave Temples | Exquisite Chalukya Rock-cut Sculptures | el Liven
Channel: el Liven
Date: 2020-06-01

Badami Cave temples 1-4 and their prominent sculptures described sequentially in a walk-through with voice-over and subtitles. Chalukya dynasty history in the 6th century at it's best. The Chalukyan hillfort on the North Hill described with its historically significant temple architecture.

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#Badami, the medieval capital of the Vatapi Chalukya's (6th-8th century CE) lies in a red sandstone ravine on the Deccan plateau.  On its southern side are 4 #rockcut #cavetemples of the 6th century C.E . Cave 1 is dedicated to Shiva, 2 and 3 to Vishnu and Cave 4 is a Jain temple.Exquisite carvings on large panels bring their stories to life.  Intricate, jewel-like designs are carved on the pillars that separate the verandah and the main hall, a common feature of the caves.  On the roof and walls are the pantheon and scenes from everyday #Chalukya life. Cave 3, the largest, is the only #BadamiTemple dated precisely to the first of November 578 C.E. It is a fusion of the northern nagara style with the deccan style. Cave 4  gives an aerial view of Agastya Teertha and the 7th century Bhutnath temple. 

#BadamiFort emerges from the ravines opposite the caves on the North Hill. This hillfort is fortified above and below. It was completed in 544 C.E by the Chalukya king Pulkesin I. Most of it is in ruins and was plundered after a defeat by the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I in 642 C.E. Pulkeshin II died defending his capital. Tipu Sultan occupied the fort until it was taken by the Marathas in June 1786.  The upper Shivalaya temple in the fort was constructed in the 7th century is crowned by a large kuta without a finial; the earliest example of this Dravida roof style.  From the top of the fort bathe in the glow of a Badami sunset!

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:30 Badami
0:41 Cave 1
1:52 Cave 2
2:33 Cave 3
3:48 Cave 4
4:23 Agastya Lake
4:30 Badami Fort
5:30 Upper Shivalaya
6:23 Credits

Credits:
Made with Shotcut https://shotcut.org/
Subtitles with Elusien's SubRip Generator http://www.elusien.co.uk/shotcut/
Audio mixed in Audacity  https://www.audacityteam.org/
Voiceover from Google https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/
Zakir Hussain - Rama Rama https://www.shnflac.net/
Anoushka Shankar - Dissolving Boundaries https://www.shnflac.net/

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