The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c6.s1.3

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The country, over which these remains are found, embraces the southern portion of the Bombay Presidency, the northern part of Maisur, and the districts of the Madras Presidency and Nizām’s territory immediately adjoining the former upon the south-east. Over this area, more or less, as the fortunes of war ordained, the Chālukyan kings held sway from the fifth to the end of the twelfth century A.D., save for an interregnum of about two hundred years, when the family was, for a time, dispossessed of the bulk of their territory by the Rāshṭrakūṭas from the north.