A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c21.38
A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c21.38
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c21.38
At Tēr in the Sholapur district and Chezārla in the Krishna district are found Buddhist caitya halls built in brick, perhaps in the fifth century A.D., and surviving to this day because they were appropriated to brahminical uses after the decline of Buddhism. We refer to the Trivikrama temple at Tēr and the Kapoteśvara temple at Chezārla. These two small buildings, each not more than 30 feet long, are now the only means of judging the external appearance of the Buddhist structural temples as the rock-cut caityas have no exteriors except their façades.