Humility of the king and his family in serving the ascetic, the offering of food, ahardaan - a tradition in which Jain munis accept select food from a householder to fit their cupped palms - are also pronounced on the panels. One panel depicts the arrival of Acharya Bhadrabahu and King Chandragupta welcoming him at the city’s outskirts. Vinod Doddanavar, a history scholar and an expert on Shravanabelagola, says these screens appear stylistically different and hence can be interpreted as built elsewhere and fitted here later, since the stone used for the other basadis is granite, but these screens seem to be crafted from schist. The beginning and the end of every row has a blank square. The odd rows contain four squares (or rectangles, since they are of slightly varying sizes) and the even rows contain five squares each. The stones are interspersed with carved panels on them. One depicts the life of Chandragupta and the other illustrates the life of Bhadrabahu. Years later, a doorway flanked by two intricate stone screens was attached to it. The basadi, along with two more, was built in the 8th or 9th century AD, in the Ganga style of architecture. Professor Shadakshari Settar, a stalwart historian, archaeologist and writer, says that although there is evidence for the migration of the duo through an inscription dated 600 AD, there is no reference to the date of the migration itself, set at 300 BC. Their stories, it’s largely believed, can be traced on two stone screens inside the Chandragupta Basadi on the hill. With his ascension, his Indian empire covered the Himalayas in the north and the Kabul River valley (Afghanistan) in the west and the Vindhya Range in the south.ĭue to a famine that was foreseen by his guru Shrutkevalin Bhadrabahu, Chandragupta moved southwards and led an exodus. The latter owes its name to King Chandragupta Maurya, who is believed to have a spiritual connection with the place.Ĭhandragupta’s reign is considered one of the mightiest and his empire one of the most expansive in all of history.
Famous for its monolithic statue of Gomateshwara, the serene town of Shravanabelagola is dotted with two hills, the larger Vindhyagiri (Doddabetta) and the smaller Chandragiri (Chikkabetta).
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