Chalukyas of Badami
The Chalukya Empire was a medieval empire that ruled over most of the Deccan during the 6th-8th century.[1]
Chalukya dynasty | |||||||||||||
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| 543–753 | |||||||||||||
 Greatest extent of the Chalukya Empire, 636 AD, 740 AD [2] | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Badami | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | Kannada Sanskrit | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Hinduism Buddhism[3] Jainism | ||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||
| Maharaja | |||||||||||||
• 543–566 | Pulakeshin I | ||||||||||||
• 746–753 | Kirtivarman II | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Earliest records | 543 | ||||||||||||
• Established | 543 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 753 | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | India | ||||||||||||
References
change- ↑ Chopra, P.N.; Ravindran, T.K.;, Subrahmanian, N (2003). History of South India (Ancient, Medieval and Modern) Part 1. New Delhi: Chand Publications. ISBN 81-219-0153-7.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Kamath, Suryanath U. (2001). A Concise History of Karnataka: (from Pre-historic Times to the Present). Jupiter Books. p. 327.
- ↑ An inscription dated 1095 AD of Vikramaditya VI mentions grants to a Vihara of Buddha and Arya-Taradevi (Cousens 1926, p11)