Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Periods) c23.5

c23.5

The Pallava dynasty maintained its varying forms of architecture for some three centuries, from A.D. 600 to 900, and its productions resolve themselves into two phases, the first of these occupying the seventh century, and the second the eighth and ninth centuries In the former the examples were entirely rock-cut, in the latter they were entirely structural. There were four principal rulers during the period of their power, and the works of each phase have been divided into two groups, comprising four groups in all, each of which is named after the king who was ruling at the time.