Kalyāṇa (Basavakalyan)

Kalyāṇa (modern Basavakalyan) is a town in the Bidar district of Karnataka, south India. As the capital of the later Western Chālukya / Kalachuri kingdom, it was the centre of Basava's activity (12th c.) and of the Anubhava Maṇṭapa, the assembly of the Vīraśaiva (Liṅgāyat) movement.