The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c7.11

c7.11

Dravidian temples, with their subsidiary shrines and surrounding corridors, generally formed separate groups, which, in later times, often became very extensive; the northern ones were more solitary in their distribution, the main building, with four other very small ones, occasionally forming a *pañchāyatana* or group of five. In this matter the Chālukyan temple leans rather to the northern style.