Worship of the banyan Tree and Shiva linga (aniconic representation of Shiva) by devotees in the month of Kartik (October-November) in the Chandrabhaga temple complex.
Inscriptions are found from the old group of temples at Chandrabhaga on the pillar of the Sitaleshwar Temple (right) and from the Navadurga or Kalika Devi Temple (left).
The Chalukya monarchs, at the very least, created favourable conditions for temple construction at sites such as Badami, Mahakut, Aihole and Pattadakal.
Within a quarter century, the Dashavatara Temple at Deogarh (c. 525 CE) expanded upon the concept of the unmanifest becoming manifest, featuring an elaborate symbolic program celebrating the multiple manifestations of the deity, in this case Vishnu. Image courtesy: Wikimedia Commons
The amalgamation of ideas and the combination of the architectural vocabulary of latina and kutina (the two common morphological types of temple architecture, also sometimes erroneously called North Indian and South Indian respectively) temples are seen at the site of Mahakut. Image courtesy: Dineshkannambadi (Wikimedia Commons)
An open-air ambulatory was provided for each tier, hidden in the recession of the next storey by the parapet enclosure of the kutas and the shalas. Image courtesy: Wikimedia Commons