The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c6.s1.1

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TO describe the monuments of a country without giving some account of the people who raised them would be to deprive our study of a great deal of its interest. It is, therefore, necessary to give a very brief outline of the Chālukyan dynasty, with its subordinate chiefs, under whose auspices the buildings we are about to examine were erected. Until its numerous lithic records and copper-plate charters were taken in hand¹ and systematically translated, little, indeed, was known of this dynasty; and it is to these translations and Dr. Fleet’s historical account, in the first volume of the Bombay Gazetteer, that I am indebted for the short abstract given below.