Under the Chalukya dynasty, the Badami Chalukya architectural style originated in the Malaprabha river basin in the present-day Bagalkot district of Karnataka state, India, around the fifth to eighth century CE. Later, it expanded to a wider areas. The Vesara and Chalukya styles are other names for this type, which also include the considerably later Western Chalukya architecture of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Badami Chalukya is equivalent to early Chalukya architecture, as used by Georg ... (Read More)