Category:Kadamala Kalva

**Kadamala Kalava**
	A village in Andhra Pradesh with 7th-century Shiva temple
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	15° 31′ 41.15″ N, 78° 35′ 01.93″ E
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Kadamala Kalva, also referred to as Kadmala kalava or Kadamara Kalava, is a village in Bandi Atmakur mandal, Kurnool district Andhra Pradesh.
It is about 10 kilometers southeast from the small town of Bandi Atmakur, 15 kilometers northeast of the large town of Nandyala, and about 95 kilometers southeast from Kurnool city, Andhra Pradesh.
Now a village, it was together with the Ernapadu village nearby, the site of a major Hindu-monastery (Brahmamgari) and 7th-century temples complex (Sivanandisvara).
The Sivanandisvara (Sivanandiswara) temples complex consist of a large Nagara-style North Indian Shiva temple surrounded by a galaxy of twenty two miniature temples in many distinctive North Indian (Nagara) and South Indian (Dravida) styles. These illustrate some of the temple architecture, plans along with religious iconography that Indian architects and artisans had developed by the 7th-century.
The site also has important inscriptions such as those of Chalukya ruler Pulakesin II which help date the history and archaeological importance of this region around mid 1st-millennium CE. The area was likely a significant pilgrimage and education center in the Deccan area by about 500 to 650 CE.

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