Badami, formerly known asVatapi, is a town and headquarters of ataluk by the same name, in theBagalkot district ofKarnataka,India. It was the regal capital of theBadami Chalukyas from CE 540 to 757. It is famous for its rock cut monuments such as theBadami cave temples, as well as the structural temples such as theBhutanatha temples,Badami Shivalaya andJambulingesvara temple. It is located in a ravine at the foot of a rugged, redsandstone outcrop that surrounds Agastya lake. Badami has been selected as one of the heritage cities forHRIDAY - Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana scheme of Government of India.

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• Three stone lintels bearing bas-reliefs were discovered in, course of the clearance at the second gateway of the Hill Fort to the north of the Bhûtnãth tank at Badami… These originally belonged to a temple which is now in ruins and were re-used at a later period in the construction of the plinth of guardroom on the fort.
  • Archaeological Survey of India, Annual Report 1928-29, Pp. 167-68., Quoted from Shourie, A., & Goel, S. R. (1990). Hindu temples: What happened to them.[1]

• The bas-reliefs represent scenes from the early life of KRISHNA and may be compared with similar ones in the BADAMI CAVES.
  • Archaeological Survey of India, Annual Report 1928-29, Pp. 167-68., Quoted from Shourie, A., & Goel, S. R. (1990). Hindu temples: What happened to them.[2]

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