Mahakuta
A group of Chalukyan temples round a spring-fed tank, a few kilometres from Badami.
- Where
- Bagalkot, Karnataka, India
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 15.9167, 75.7500
Get the Mahakuta stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Mahakuta. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Karnataka volume with your photos and a note.
Near Mahakuta
Banashankari Amma Temple 5.8 km
A temple near Badami with a stepped tank and a chariot festival in January.
Badami Cave Temples 7.0 km
Four sixth century caves cut into red sandstone above a tank, Hindu and Jain, by the early Chalukyas.
Pattadakal 7.9 km
Where northern and southern temple styles were tried side by side in the eighth century, and the argument settled.
Aihole 18 km
A hundred and twenty temples in one village, treated by historians as the laboratory where Indian temple form was worked out.
Kudalasangama 46 km
Where the Krishna and the Malaprabha meet, and where Basavanna, the twelfth-century reformer, lies buried at the water's edge.
Almatti Dam 48 km
The main reservoir of the Upper Krishna project in north Karnataka, finished in 2005.
Mahadeva Temple, Itagi 57 km
A Chalukyan temple of 1112 called the emperor among temples by an inscription on its own wall.
Kasivisvesvara Temple, Lakkundi 59 km
A late Chalukyan temple with two shrines facing each other across one hall.
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Questions
Where is Mahakuta?
Mahakuta is in Bagalkot, Karnataka. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Banashankari Amma Temple (5.8 km), Badami Cave Temples (7.0 km), Pattadakal (7.9 km).
How do I get the Mahakuta stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Mahakuta and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Karnataka volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Mahakuta before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Karnataka volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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