Stock Photo: Rock-Cut Sculpture Of Ardhanarishvara, Cave-1 Badami Cave Temples, Badami, Bagalkot, Karnataka, India
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Ardhanarishvara lit.?'the half-female Lord'), is a form of the Hindu deity Shiva combined with his consort Parvati. Ardhanarishvara is depicted as half-male and half-female, equally split down the middle. The right half is usually the male Shiva, illustrating his traditional attributes. The Badami cave temples are a complex of Hindu and Jain cave temples located by Agastya Lake in Badami, a town in the Bagalkot district in northern part of Karnataka, India. The caves are important examples of Indian rock-cut architecture, especially Badami Chalukya architecture and the earliest date from the 6th century.
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