A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.100

c8.100

The style intermediate in both locality and character between the Northern and Southern styles is that which received from Fergusson the inappropriate name of Chalukyan. It is true that the Chalukya clan supplied one of the leading royal families of the Deccan from the middle of the sixth to the middle of the eighth century, and again from A. D. 973 to the Muhammadan conquest, but the typical examples of the style are the work of Hoysala, not Chalukya kings; and, if a dynastic designation be given, the style should be named Hoysala rather than Chalukya. Territorial designations are, however, preferable to dynastic, and if it be practicable to modify Fergusson's established nomenclature, the style may be better described either as that of the Deccan, or that of Mysore, in which province the finest specimens occur, at Halebīd, the ancient capital, Belūr, and many other localities less known to fame.