The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c7.14

c7.14

If we pass on to Kāśiviśvēśvara at Lakkuṇḍi we see a further marked development of the Chālukya tower, where the ascending line of niches is more fully expressed; and the northern tower, from which the idea was borrowed, is reproduced in miniature, as an ornament, within each. Around the walls are miniature towers of both types. It therefore seems certain, that the Chālukya builders saw some grace and beauty of line in these northern spires which they endeavoured to express in their modified Dravidian outline.