Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

Lakkundi Did you know that Lakkundi, in the Gadag District of Karnataka, once a prosperous town now a village, is an ancient heritage site well known for a plethora of ruined Hindu and Jain Temples of the Chalukyan architectural style? Lakkundi , also known even prior to 10th-century as Lokkugundi city in Gadag district of Karnataka, with innumerable temples of Hindu and Jain denomination of Chalukyan architectural style, even flourished as one of the capitals of the Hoysalas in the 11th-12th centuries became a glorifed village due to Islamic depradations of the region. The village was re-discovered by Brtish archeologists only in the 19th-century rediscovered with over 50 temple ruins step wells and water reservoirs, spread around the small village in a deplorable state. The ruined state of the temples was attributed to depradations brought about by the Islamic Sultanates in and after the 14th-century who sought loot and political dominance over the South...