Jain Temples
- Jain Cave temple Badami
The Badami Chalukyas encouraged Jainism. There is one cave temple at Badami.
- Meguti Jain Temple Aihole
Meguti Jain temple with dravidian style of architecture on a raised platform on a hillock and steps leads to the large mukhamantapa. We can have a panoramic view of the temples of Aihole from here. There is inscription which records the construction of the temple during Pulakeshi II by a scholar Ravikeerthi. and the Aihole inscription (dated 634 CE), Poetry on stone at Meguti temple Aihole in Sanskrit language and old Kannada script.
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Famous quotes containing the word temples:
““To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods,”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)