History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c25.5

v2.c25.5

Unfortunately, we have no name which would describe the style in its ethnographical and geographical relations without being open to the objection of expressing either too much or too little. In this respect the southern style is singularly fortunate: Dravidian correctly limits it to people speaking Tâmil, Telugu, or some cognate dialect; and the country where the people speaking those tongues are to be found is generally and correctly known as Drâvida-desa, or country of the Dravidians.