The images are found in seated posture and may be considered as provocative in appearance.
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A terracota Lajja Gauri sculpture from Sannati in Gulbarga district in Karnataka; a fractured image of the Goddess in the Mahakuta temple in the state’s Bagalkot district
Female fertility worship was a universally accepted practice in ancient cultures. Almost all such cultures have yielded a good number of female figurines identified as the Mother Goddess. With society and culture developing in prehistoric times, such practices came into existence as part of social and ritualistic beliefs. Fertility worship as Mother Goddess worship became one of the important practices in the Neolithic and post-Neolithic cultures in India.
Mangalisha, a great patron of Badami Chalukya art
Mahakuta has a good number of temples with both Dravida and Nagara vimanas, situated around the ancient water tank Deva Droni that is fed by a natural spring.
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The around 1,460-year-old Ganesha sculpture in Cave No. 1 in the Chalukyan capital Vatapi (now Badami)
Badami, the ancient Vatapi, was the capital of the Chalukyas who ruled from 543-757 CE. The Badami Chalukya period was known for distinctive and innovative architectural and sculptural examples. Badami, now in Karnataka’s Bagalkot district, has unique rock-cut shrines. Among the four cave temples, Cave 3 is the most important for its varied sculptural programme and magnificent scale.