{"id":20804,"date":"2024-02-23T01:48:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T20:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20804"},"modified":"2025-04-06T07:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T02:18:17","slug":"badami-chalukyas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/badami-chalukyas\/","title":{"rendered":"Badami Chalukyas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Chalukya dynasty<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Chalukyas\u00a0ruled over the central Indian plateau of the\u00a0Deccan between the sixth and twelfth centuries.<\/li>\n<li>During that period, they\u00a0ruled as three closely related but individual dynasties.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Chalukyas of Badami, who ruled\u00a0between the sixth and the eighth\u00a0centuries, and the two sibling dynasties of the\u00a0Chalukyas of Kalyani,\u00a0or the\u00a0Western Chalukyas, and the\u00a0Chalukyas of Vengi, or the Eastern Chalukyas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Badami Chalukyas<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Origin:\n<ul>\n<li>Pulakesi I\u00a0established the\u00a0Chalukya dynasty in 550.<\/li>\n<li>Pulakesi I\u00a0took Vatapi (Badami\u00a0in Bagalkot district, Karnataka) under his control\u00a0and made it his capital.<\/li>\n<li>Historians refer to Pulakesi I and his descendants as the Chalukyas of Badami.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0ruled over an empire that\u00a0comprised the entire state of Karnataka\u00a0and most of Andhra Pradesh in the Deccan.<\/li>\n<li>Pulakesi II had been perhaps the\u00a0greatest emperor of the Badami Chalukyas.\n<ul>\n<li>Pulakesi II\u00a0extended the Chalukya Empire up to the northern extents of the\u00a0Pallava kingdom and halted the southward march of Harsha by\u00a0defeating him\u00a0on the banks of the river Narmada.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>He then\u00a0defeated the Vishnukundins in the southeastern Deccan.<\/li>\n<li>Pallava Narasimhavarman\u00a0reversed that victory by attacking and\u00a0occupying the Chalukya capital, Vatapi (Badami).<\/li>\n<li>Hiuen-Tsiang, a Chinese traveller, had\u00a0visited the court of Pulakesi II.<\/li>\n<li>Later,\u00a0Persian emperor Khosrau II\u00a0exchanged ambassadors with Pulakesi II.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Badami Chalukya dynasty went into a\u00a0brief decline following the death of Pulakesi II due to internal feuds.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0recovered during the reign of Vikramaditya I, who succeeded in pushing the Pallavas out of Badami and restoring order to the empire.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The empire\u00a0reached its peak during the rule of the illustrious\u00a0Vikramaditya II, who\u00a0defeated Pallava Nandivarman II and captured Kanchipuram.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Rashtrakuta Dantidurga\u00a0overthrew the last Badami Chalukya king, Kirtivarman I, in 753.<\/li>\n<li>At their peak, they ruled a vast empire stretching from the Kaveri to the Narmada.<\/li>\n<li>Art and Architecture:\n<ul>\n<li>It saw the evolution and proliferation of a\u00a0new style of architecture known as\u00a0Vesara, a combination of the South Indian and the North Indian building styles.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0rock-cut temples of Pattadakal, a\u00a0UNESCO World Heritage\u00a0Site,\u00a0Badami,\u00a0and Aihole constitute their most celebrated monuments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Government:\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0army consisted of\u00a0infantry, cavalry, elephant corps, and a powerful\u00a0navy.<\/li>\n<li>Hiuen-Tsiang mentions that the Chalukya\u00a0army had hundreds of elephants intoxicated with liquor prior to the battle.<\/li>\n<li>Rashtrakuta inscriptions\u00a0use the term\u00a0Karnatabala\u00a0to refer to\u00a0their powerful armies.<\/li>\n<li>The government\u00a0levied taxes called Herjunka, Kirukula, Bilkode, and Pannaya.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0empire was divided into Maharashtrakas (provinces), then into smaller\u00a0Rashtrakas (Mandala),\u00a0Vishaya (district),\u00a0Bhoga (group of ten villages).<\/li>\n<li>Many\u00a0autonomous regions existed, ruled by feudatories like Alupas, Gangas, Banas, and Sendrakas.<\/li>\n<li>Local assemblies\u00a0looked after local issues.<\/li>\n<li>Groups of mahajanas (learned brahmins)\u00a0looked after agraharas (like Ghatika, a place of higher learning), like the ones at Badami (2000 mahajans) and Aihole (500 mahajanas).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Coinage:\n<ul>\n<li>The Badami Chalukyas minted coins of a\u00a0different standard compared to the\u00a0northern kingdoms.<\/li>\n<li>The coins\u00a0had Nagari and Kannada legends. They minted coins with\u00a0symbols of temples, lion or boar\u00a0facing right,\u00a0and the lotus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Religion:\n<ul>\n<li>They\u00a0initially followed Vedic Hinduism.<\/li>\n<li>Later,\u00a0from the time of Vikramaditya I, the people took an\u00a0inclination towards Shaivism, and sects like Pashupata, Kapalikas, and Kalamukhas existed.<\/li>\n<li>They actively\u00a0encouraged Jainism, as attested to by one of the Badami cave temples and other Jain temples in the Aihole complex.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Pallava Dynasty?<\/h3>\n<p>The Pallava Dynasty was a famous power in South India that existed between the 3rd and 9th Centuries. They ruled the northern parts of Tamil Nadu, parts of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana, with Kanchipuram as their capital.The Pallavas supported Buddhism, Jainism, and the Brahmanical faith and were patrons of music, painting, and literature.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/hyderabad\/ancient-badami-chalukya-temples-discovered-in-mudimanikyam-village\/articleshow\/107928189.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Badami Chalukya temples, writing found in Nalgonda<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chalukyas ruled over the central Indian plateau of the Deccan between the sixth and twelfth centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}