The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c6.s7.2

c6.s7.2

We have, now, pretty well passed the limits of time within which our subject is confined, and it is sufficient to say that, within fifty years of Siṅghaṇa's death, during the reign of Rāmchandra, the Muḥammadans, from the north, swept upon the country and began the conquest of the Dakhan, which they completed in A.D. 1318. Under this inroad of iconoclasts the Hindu and Jaina temples suffered terribly, and their desecration still continued, from time to time, during the next three hundred years, more especially whilst the Dakhan was under the power of Islām.