Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Periods) c32.4

c32.4

Situated as this region is between two other architectural movements of great power, its productions could not fail to be affected by the characteristics of their style For on the one hand it extended towards the north in the direction of Gujarat, where a very distinctive type of structure had been evolved under the patronage of the Solanki dynasty, while on the other, towards the south, it was within reach of the influence of the later Chalukyan mode, a manifestation of temple architecture of even greater significance. But although the Deccani temples show evidences of the proximity of these two divergent developments, none the less they also display certain notable features of an independent and original order entitling them to separate treatment¹