Pattadakal Group of Monuments
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How it came to be
Pattadakal stands on the west bank of the Malaprabha River in Karnataka, southern India. Its name means stone of coronation, and Chalukya kings were crowned here. The place was held sacred because the river turns north at this point.
In the 7th and 8th centuries the Chalukyas built nine Hindu temples and one Jain sanctuary here. Four follow the Dravida style of the south and four the Nagara style of the north, while the Papanatha temple combines the two. Northern and southern architecture met at this site.
The largest, the Virupaksha temple, was built around 740 by Queen Lokamahadevi to celebrate her husband Vikramaditya II's victory over the Pallavas. It later served as a model for the Kailasa temple at Ellora. The group was inscribed in 1987.
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