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The inscription is 127 cm tall, 99 cm wide. The Kannada Characters are approximately 2.4 cm tall, 2.5 cm wide & 0.26 cm deep (very shallow). The stone displays a sizable sculpture of a slightly plump man standing, grasping a bow in one hand and a sword in the other, despite multiple arrows piercing his body.
578 CE Mangalesha Kannada inscription in Cave temple # 3 at Badami 634CE Aihole inscription of Ravi Kirti. About 25,000 inscriptions found in Karnataka and nearby states [1] belong to historic Kannada rulers, including the Kadambas, the Western Ganga Dynasty, the Rashtrakuta, the Chalukya, the Hoysala and the Vijayanagara Empire.
Kalya (Kalavathi pattana) or Kalya is a historic settlement located in Magadi Taluk, Bengaluru South district of Karnataka, India.Kalya as an early settlement can be attested by prehistoric rock art and tools reported from Kalya and inscriptional evidence in the village starting from 550 CE to the early 17th century CE, making it one of the few places in the country that has been continuously ...
Old-Kannada inscription dated 578 CE (Badami Chalukya dynasty) outside Badami cave temple no.3. Kannada literature is the corpus of written forms of the Kannada language, which is spoken mainly in the Indian state of Karnataka and written in the Kannada script.
The inscription is 159 cm tall, 77 cm wide. The Kannada Characters are approximately 4 cm tall, 3 cm wide & 0.21 cm deep. The inscription stone has engraving of the mythical bird Gandabherunda fighting a tiger and below that of a warrior fighting a tiger, the latter was also the royal emblem of the Hoysalas. It also has engraving of the sun and ...
The Veeranarayana temple of Chalukya times, completely renovated in Vijayanagara times including the image of Narayana. The great Kannada poet Kumaravyasa composed his famous "Karnataka Bharatha Kathamanjari" when staying in this temple. The Sri Lakshmi Venkateshwara temple is situated at Venkatapura Taluk near Sortur, Gadag District.
The empire is named after its capital city Vijayanagara, whose ruins surround modern Hampi, now a World Heritage Site in Karnataka. Kannada literature during this period consisted of writings relating to the socio-religious developments of the Veerashaiva and Vaishnava faiths, and to a lesser extent to that of Jainism.
A group of monuments at Pattadakal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka. The temples of this group are the finest structural temples of this period and these are the Jaina, Dolmen, Kadasiddheswara, Jambulingeswara, Galaganatha, Chandrashekhara, Sangameswara, Kasivisweswara, Mallikarjuna, Virupaksha and ...