Pattadakal, Karnataka

Accomodation

• Hotel Badami Court.
• Mookambika Lodge.
• Hotel Satkar.

How to reach there
Rail: There are six daily trains from Badami to Bijapur.

Road: There are buses to and from Bangalore, Hubli, Kolhapur, Bijapur daily.

Location
This village is 16 km from Badami .

    The most important monument here, the Lokeshwara or Virupaksha Temple, is a huge structure with sculptures that narrate episodes from the Hindu epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, as well as throw light on the social life of the early Chalukyans. The other main temple, Mallikarjuna, has sculptures which tell a different story - this time from the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Krishna. The old Jain temple with its two stone elephants, about a km from the centre, is also worth visiting.