Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Periods) c37.32

c37.32

In addition to the selected buildings of the style described above, there are many places within the area referred to where temples of the same type may be found, such as Haveri, Hangal, Bankapur, Niralgi, Harahalli, Galganatha, Harihara, Rattihalli, Belagamve, Unkal, Degamve, Belgaum, Bagali, Magala, Hirahadagalli, Nilagunda, Huvinahadgalli, and Halavagalu. Finally, for the phase in its decadence, there is the temple of Koppesvara at Khedrapur, a village thirty miles east of the town of Kolhapur This is a large building, planned in the usual manner with a spacious pillared hall in front, but its construction seems to have been interrupted, being eventually completed at a much later date in brick and plaster. Most probably, it was being built, therefore, just at the moment when the forces of the Moslem invader Malik Kafur overran the Dekkan early in the fourteenth century, and on that account was left unfinished From the design of the pillars particularly, the decline of the style can be understood, as these, although copying generally the shape of the fine moulded examples of the previous structures, are wrought in a dry and lifeless manner indicating plainly that by this time much of the fine spirit of the movements had gone out of it.