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#Bhadrakali_Temple is situated atop a hill between the cities of Hanamkonda and Warangal in Andhra Pradesh. The presiding deity of the temple is goddess Kali in her fierce form, large eyes, grim countenance, and eight arms wielding different weapons. The image is made of stone 
and it sits on her vehicle, the lion. Legend has it that the Kohinoor diamond was the left eye of the goddess in this temple. In 625 AD, King Pulakesi II of Chalukya dynasty had built the Bhadrakali Temple. When the region came under the reign of Kakatiya rulers, they made
Bhadrakali as their tutelary deity, and fixed the left eye of the goddess with the rare #Kohinoor_diamond. Later, sometime in 1310 AD, the Delhi sultanate under Alauddin Khilji brought the empire of Kakatiyas under their regime, destroyed the Bhadrakali temple and took away the
