Places to Visit in Sannati

Gulbarga FortJama Masjid, Gulbarga FortSharana Basaveshwara TempleKhwaja Bande Nawaz Dargah

Kalaburagi

The old Bahmani capital (Gulbarga) — the moated Gulbarga Fort and its Córdoba-style Jama Masjid, the seven Haft Gumbaz tombs and the echoing Chor Gumbad, the Khwaja Bande Nawaz dargah, the Sharana Basaveshwara temple and the modern Buddha Vihar.

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Ganagapur (Dattatreya Temple)

Ganagapur

The Deval Ganagapur pilgrimage town in Afzalpur taluk on the Bhima–Amarja confluence — a major Dattatreya shrine.

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Bahmani-ruins base

Featured: Chincholi Wildlife Sanctuary

Firozabad

The ruined Bahmani pleasure-capital on the Bhima, south-west of Kalaburagi.

Firozabad Ruins

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Chincholi Wildlife SanctuaryChandrampalli Dam

Chincholi

The forested eastern taluk — the Chincholi wildlife sanctuary and the Chandrampalli dam and backwaters.

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River-dam base

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Chittapur

The Chittapur belt — the Bennethora dam and reservoir in the district’s dry countryside.

Bennethora Dam

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Malkhed

Ancient Manyakheta on the Kagina — the Rashtrakuta imperial capital, its ruined fort and historic Jain math.

Malkhed (Manyakheta)

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In the district

Where Sannati sits in Kalaburagi district

Nearest airportKalaburagi (GBI), 12 km east of the city centre and 16 km by road from the fort, but with only one route; Hyderabad (HYD), ~231 km by road, is the practical one

Rail gatewayKalaburagi Junction (KLBG) on the Mumbai–Chennai line, with Wadi a major junction nearby

Bus / road accessNH-150 and NH-50; KSRTC and private buses from Hyderabad (~231 km), Solapur, Vijayapura and Bidar; a car is best for Sannati, Malkhed and Ganagapur.

District HQKalaburagi

LandscapeKalyana-Karnataka Deccan district on the Bhima and Kagina rivers, ~450 m

Kalaburagi district is known for: The Bahmani Gulbarga Fort and Jama Masjid, the Haft Gumbaz tombs, the Khwaja Bande Nawaz dargah and Sharana Basaveshwara temple, the Kanaganahalli Buddhist stupa at Sannati, the Rashtrakuta capital of Malkhed and the Dattatreya town of Ganagapur.

Gulbarga FortKhwaja Bande Nawaz DargahKanaganahalli Buddhist Stupa

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PlaceSannati (Chandralamba Temple)

The Chandralamba (Chandrala Parameshwari) temple on the Bhima at Sannati — a Shakta pilgrimage site whose 1986 collapse of a slab revealed rare Ashokan edicts, linking the living temple to one of India’s oldest Buddhist landscapes.

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PlaceKanaganahalli Buddhist Stupa

The excavated Maha Stupa at Kanaganahalli near Sannati — a roughly 2,000-year-old "Adholoka Maha Chaitya" ringed by carved limestone panels, including a unique portrait relief of Emperor Ashoka; one of the most important early Buddhist finds in the Deccan.

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Kanaganahalli Buddhist Stupa

Pair the excavated 2,000-year-old stupa with the Chandralamba temple at Sannati, ~55 km from the city; a car is best.

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Sannati guides, stories & itineraries

We have not published a story about Sannati itself yet. These cover Kalaburagi, the district it sits in, and travel in Karnataka generally.

Nearby in Kalaburagi

We have not published a story about a place in Sannati itself yet. These are the nearest things we have written.

Chincholi: The Dry Forest That Got Protected Last

Karnataka has protected its wet Western Ghats forest for a century. The dry deciduous country on the Telangana border had to wait until 2011 — and in 2023 a camera trap set for leopards found a dog nobody had recorded here since 1966.

The Fort With a Town Inside It

The Archaeological Survey of India’s board at the gate gives the fort 74.10 acres, fifteen bastions and twenty-six guns. It does not mention that people live in the ruins, that a court has been ordering their removal since 2019, or that the district’s own website says the fort is half an acre.

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The Mosque That Turned Itself Inside Out

A Friday mosque of 1367 with no courtyard at all, its outer walls opened into arcades so that daylight comes in sideways. Nobody can agree how many domes it has: the published counts run from sixty-three to a hundred and seven.

Half a Day in the First Bahmani Capital

More from Kalaburagi

Wider guides to Kalaburagi — its coast, its culture and the routes through it.

Kalaburagi itinerary

Kalaburagi was the capital of the Deccan for seventy-seven years and most people drive past it. Three monuments, none of them ticketed, all within four kilometres of each other, and a morning is enough.

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Kalaburagi: The Capital Nobody Stops At

Two names for one city, and each of them is a different history. Gulbarga is Persian for a city of flowers; Kalaburagi is Kannada for stony land. Both are accurate.

The Bahmani Trail: Kalaburagi, Bidar and Bijapur

Regional guide

India has put twelve of these monuments on a single UNESCO tentative listing and left them there since 2014. Driven end to end they are one story: a sultanate that broke from Delhi, moved capital twice, and split into five.