Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Periods) c47.34

c47.34

I suggest that what really happened was that after defeating the Chalukyans in 642 A.D, the Pallava king removed the artisans and sculptors from Badami, Ajanta, Ellora and Aurangabad to Mahabalipuram and other places in his own country and that they or their successors were taken back to the Deccan about 647 A D , when the Chalukyan king, Vikramaditya I, defeated the Pallavas and captured Kanchi (Conjeeveram).