{"id":21864,"date":"2025-02-17T03:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21864"},"modified":"2025-04-06T15:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T10:21:30","slug":"chalukyas-of-kalyani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chalukyas-of-kalyani\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalyana Chalukyas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kalyana Chalukyas Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Three Kannada inscriptions from the Kalyana Chalukya era were noticed for the first time in Kankal village in the Pudur mandal of Vikarabad district.<\/p>\n<h2>About Chalukyas<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Chalukyas ruled over the <strong>central Indian plateau of the Deccan<\/strong> between the <strong>sixth and twelfth centuries.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>During that period, they ruled as <strong>three closely related<\/strong> but <strong>individual dynasties.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Chalukyas of Badami, <\/strong>who ruled between the <strong>sixth and eighth centuries<\/strong>, and the two sibling dynasties of the<strong> Chalukyas of Kalyani, or the Western Chalukya<\/strong>s, and the <strong>Chalukyas of Vengi, or the Eastern Chalukyas.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About Kalyana Chalukyas<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Primarily a Kannadiga dynasty, they were known after their <strong>capital city, Kalyani.<\/strong> It is present<strong> in the modern-day Bidar district of Karnataka.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>empire <\/strong>was <strong>established by Tailapa II <\/strong>when the Western Chalukya <strong>was a feudatory of the Rashtrakuta Empire <\/strong>and Tailapa II governed Tardavadi in the Bijapur district of Karnataka.<\/li>\n<li>In the 300 years long rule in the western Deccan and southern part of the Indian peninsula, Chalukya of Kalyani expanded and reached the <strong>zenith of power during the rule of Vikramaditya VI (1076-1126 CE).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is considered the most successful period of the later Chalukya rulers in Karnataka\u2019s history, and many scholars refer to this period as the <strong>\u2018Chalukya Vikrama era\u2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Vikramaditya VI was not only controlling feudatories in the northern region, such as Kadamba Jayakesi II of Goa, Silhara Bhoja, and the Yadava King; he <strong>won several battles against the Chola dynasty.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Kalyana Chalukyas Decline<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>After Vikramaditya VI\u2019s death, the<strong> consistent confrontation with the Chola <\/strong>dynasty exploited both empires and gave opportunities to their subordinates to rebel.<\/li>\n<li>After 1126, the Western Chalukya empire started declining, and by the time of Jagadhekamalla II, everything was falling apart.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Kalyana Chalukyas Administration, Art, and Architecture<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Western Chalukya administration was mainly <strong>hereditary<\/strong>, where the king passed his powers to the male heir and brother in the absence of a male heir.<\/li>\n<li>The whole <strong>kingdom was divided and managed by feudatories<\/strong> such as the <strong>Hoysala and the Kakatiya.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>While the Chalukya Dynasty maintained a <strong>great army of infantries, cavalries<\/strong>, elephant units, etc, the Western Chalukyas followed the trend and achieved a great extent of power.<\/li>\n<li>They were<strong> primarily Hindus <\/strong>but also acknowledged and <strong>tolerant of Buddhism and Jainism.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Chalukyas contributed greatly to the <strong>development of Kannada and Telugu literature.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Western Chalukya <strong>minted punch-marked gold coinscalled pagodas<\/strong> with Kannada legends.<\/li>\n<li>The Western Chalukya dynasty is considered to be a <strong>crucial era for the evolution of Deccan architecture.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Their art is also called the \u2018<strong>Gadag style\u2019 <\/strong>because numerous temples were built in the Tungabhadra-Krishna doab region in the present-day Gadag district.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Mallikarjuna temple of Bellary<\/strong>,<strong> Siddeshvara temple in Haveri, Kallesvara temple in Davangere district<\/strong>, etc are a few of the finest examples of later Chalukya architecture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Kalyana Chalukyas FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Who was the founder of Kalyani Chalukyas?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Tailapa-II<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Who was the most famous king among the Kalyani Chalukyas?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Vikramaditya-VI<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Who built Badami Caves?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Badami Caves were built by Mangalesha, a ruler of the Early Chalukya dynasty, in the 6th century CE.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/hyderabad\/900-yr-old-inscriptions-found-in-vikarabad-dist\/articleshow\/118309860.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalyana Chalukya empire was established by Tailapa II and reached the zenith of power during the rule of Vikramaditya VI (1076-1126 CE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21864","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\/21864","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=21864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}