Two Badami Chalukya temples at least 1,300-1,500 years old and a 1,200-year-old label inscription were recently discovered in Mudimanikyam village, Nalgonda District, Telangana.
The two temples date back to between 543 AD and 750 AD.
The inscription dates to 8th or 9th century AD, corresponding to the rule of the Badami Chalukyas.
These temples are exceptional as they are in Kadamba Nagara style in the Rekha Nagara format.
This is the only example of such architecture evident today in Telangana.
The label inscription reads as ‘Gandaloranru’ and is inscribed on a pillar of a group of five temples in the village.