The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c21.3

c21.3

Except the Chalukyan king, Krishna I, whose reign was made memorable by the Kailâsa temple, there is hardly a name of distinction in the next three and a half centuries among the rulers of the numerous kingdoms, great and small, into which India was divided, until Mahmûd of Ghaznî began his series of ferocious raids which ended with the capture of Somnath and the destruction of the famous temple in 1026. The dynastic history of this period, so far as it has been ascertained by patient research, is a tedious record of petty internecine warfare caused by the rivalries and quarrels of kings and chieftains, who, except for the record of conquest or defeat, seem to have very little claim to be remembered by posterity.