Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c6.6

c6.6

Compared with the great number of temple remains in North Gujarāt, the Central Provinces and the Kanarese country, those in the Dakhan are very few indeed, and this may be accounted for, in some measure, by the fancy there appears to have been for cave cutting, on which money and energy were exhausted, down to the tenth century at least. The Rāṣṭrakūṭas were cutting cave temples in the living rock in the Dakhan while the early Chālukyas, their neighbours on the south, were building massive shrines in cut-stone, and in the Central Provinces elaborate temples were being raised in moulded brickwork.