{"id":24869,"date":"2024-07-09T11:38:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T06:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24869"},"modified":"2025-04-07T13:48:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:18:02","slug":"chandravalli-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chandravalli-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandravalli Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Chandravalli Cave:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the state of <strong>Karnataka.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The cave complex is also <strong>known as the Ankali Math,<\/strong> named after a saint from Ankalagi in Belagavi district who is believed to have come and settled here.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The cave has many chambers such as a <strong>puja place with a shivlinga<\/strong> , a drawing room, a bedroom, and a water outlet that connects to a tank inside.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Historical significance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Excavations around this site surrounded by three hills have revealed coins, painted bowls, and earthen pots dating back to various dynasties such as the <strong>Hoysala, the Satavahana and the Vijayanagara.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There is also a <strong>rock inscription of Mayurasharma<\/strong>, the founder of the first Kannada dynasty \u2014 the <strong>Kadamba dynasty<\/strong> \u2014 dating back to AD 450.<\/li>\n<li>The region had <strong>connections with Rome and China<\/strong>, as some coins found here reveal. Some of the walls are adorned with paintings done in organic paint.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Kadambas<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Kadambas of Goa were the <strong>subordinates of Chalukyas of Kalyana.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Chalukya emperor Tailapa II appointed Kadamba Shasthadeva as mahamandaleshwara of Goa for his help in <strong>overthrowing the Rashtrakutas.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Kadamba Shasthadeva conquered the city of Chandavara from the Shilaharas in 960 A.D.<\/li>\n<li>Later, he conquered the port of Gopakapattana (present Goa).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gundayya, the son of Talara Nevayya, may have participated in this battle, and won the port at the cost of his life.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are inscriptions in history?<\/h3>\n<p>Inscriptions are the writings on stone, metal or some materials as an important historical source. These are valuable historical evidence of the existence and activities of early kings and empires. &#8230; Inscriptions are the information written on the stones, pillars and other metals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/news-in-frames-a-cavernous-palimpsest\/article68377526.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">News in Frames: A cavernous palimpsest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandravalli Cave  is located in the state of Karnataka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24869","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\/24869","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=24869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}