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Chamunda Raya Had the 57-Foot Gommateshwara Statue Cut in Granite on Vindhyagiri at Shravanabelagola in the 980s, and Three Short Inscriptions at Its Feet Say So

Ancient & Medieval India

Hire Benkal in Koppal Has Port-Holed Dolmens Across About 20 Hectares of a Granite Hill, and India Put the Iron Age Burial Ground on UNESCO's Tentative List in 2021

Mysuru Dasara's 3,473-Drone Peacock, Flown by an IIT Delhi-Incubated Start-up on 18 October 2026, Is Now Guinness World Records' Largest Aerial Display of a Bird

Ancient & Medieval India

Aihole Has About 125 Temples Where Chalukya Builders Tested Temple Forms in Stone, and One of Them, the Jain Temple of Meguti, Is Dated by Its Own Inscription to 634 or 635 CE

Badami's Cave 3 Is the Largest of Four Rock-Cut Caves in the Chalukya Capital, and a Pillar Inscription Dates Its Completion as a Vishnu Temple to Saka 500, or 578 to 579 CE

Ancient & Medieval India

The Nine Hindu Temples at Pattadakal in Karnataka Joined Northern and Southern Building Styles in the 7th and 8th Centuries, and UNESCO Has Listed Them Since 1987

Ancient & Medieval India

UNESCO Made the Hoysala Temples at Belur, Halebidu and Somanathapura India's 42nd World Heritage Site on 18 September 2023, Citing Sculpture That Covers the Entire Exterior Surface

Government & States

Karnataka Has 41 Percent of India's Software and Services Exports and a Per Capita Income 97 Percent Above the National Figure, in a State Joined Together in 1956 From Five Territories