Indian Heritage and Monuments

The temple is also known as Gavipuram Cave Temple. In the 16th century, Nadu Prabhu Kempegowda, the founder of Bangalore, revamped and extended the temple. It is dedicated to the Hindu deity, Lord Shiva. Every year it attracts thousands of devotees during the astronomical phenomenon which illuminates the Shivalingam and the festival of Shivaratri.

Madhugiri means honey hill. It is Monolith i.e a geological feature consisting of a single massive stone or rock. It is the second largest monolith in Asia. There is also a historic fort on top of the hill which was constructed by Raja Hira Gowda in the 17th century.

Monuments include samadhis, graves, veergala. They all provide insights about that period looking at them, we come to know about the development of architecture, the economic conditions, the quality of art.

Shivaji Maharaj was crowned as the Chhatrapati of the Maratha Kingdom at Raigad Fort in 1674.

Raigad was the capital of the Maratha Kingdom established by Shivaji Maharaj.

The town of Hassan was named after the Hasanamba temple. The Hasanamba temple holds great significance in the life of people of Hassan. The temple opens only once a week in a year in the month of October, during Diwali and the deity worshipped at the temple is Hasanamba.

The temple of Krishna is here. It is said that, the idol of Shri Krishna was installed by the Dvaita philosopher Madhvacharaya. It is also said that Lord Krishna turned on his own from the East to the West direction to provide a view to Kanakadasa. The spot where this view was given is called as Kanakana Kindi.

Shore temple which was built in the years 700–728 AD, is a temple located in Mahabalipuram, a village located in South Chennai of Tamilnadu. It is so named because the temple faces Bay of Bengal. It is one of the oldest structural stone temples of South India.

The massive rock relief known as Arjuna's Penance (or Descent of the Ganges) is located in Mahabalipuram.

The monolithic temples at Mahabalipuram, carved from single large rocks, are famously known as the Pancha Rathas (Five Chariots).

The Pallava kings are renowned for pioneering rock-cut temple architecture, with Mahabalipuram being the most significant site for these structures.

Hoysala dynasty ruled in India from about 1006 to about 1346 CE in the southern Deccan and for a time in the Kaveri (Cauvery) River valley. Hoysala architecture and sculpture, especially ornate and intricate, are best seen at Halebid, Belur, and Somnathpur. Most of these temples have secular features with broad themes depicted in their sculptures. 

Halebidu (Halebid) is the modern name for the ancient capital of the Hoysala Empire, known as Dwara Samudra.

The building of General Post Office, Mumbai had been designed by John Begg in Indo- Saracenic style. The central dome of building strongly resembles with the Gol Gumbaz of Bijapur. The Wales Museum of Mumbai was also constructed in Indo-Sarsanic style.  The main elevation is crowned by dome that in its profile and sculpture detailing is reminiscent of and inspired by the sculptural forms of Bijapur Gol Gumbaz.

As established in the previous question, Gulbarga was the initial capital of the Bahmani kingdom.