Pallava Architecture, Part I (MASI 17) c2.54

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on the back wall described above. In all probability, the rock-cut Sōmaskanda temples at Māmallapuram were excavated at the end of the Māmalla period, possibly by Paramēśvaravarman I, because in the next period, we find the latter's son and successor, Rājasimha, introducing the same uncommon features in his structural Siva temples. With the close of Paramēśvaravarman's reign we come to the end of the history of rock-cut architecture in Southern India.