The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c19.29
The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c19.29
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c19.29
Not far from Bâdâmi, in the ancient Chalukyan territory, is Pattadakal, a place as yet unheard of by most European students of architecture, but remarkable for some of the finest and most interesting structural temples in India. It is not far from Aihole, a little to the south of Bijâpûr, famous for its great mosques, tombs, and other buildings of the Muhammadan period. The Virûpâksha temple, the largest of