[www.keralites.net] A masterpiece of Chalukyan architecture, Pattadakal a UNESCO World Heritage site,Karnataka...

 

A masterpiece of Chalukyan architecture, Pattadakal a UNESCO World Heritage site,Karnataka...
 

 

The Pampanath temple in Pattadakal. The Chalukya rulers have left behind a wealth of temple architecture in Aihole, Badami and Pattadakal, all neighbouring villages in Bagalkot district of Karnataka.

 

WHO designed the first Hindu temples? Who constructed them? Where were they built? What were they made of? Why did successive rulers make them more and more magnificent? These are some interesting questions relating to temple architectural history.

One comes across three principal types of temple architecture that were prevalent in different parts of India around the same period. Between A.D. 320 and A.D. 650, the Gupta Kings started building temples in North and Central India in what is known as the Indo-Aryan Nagara style of architecture.
 

 
  In the south, kings built temples in the Dravidian style. One finds the earliest surviving Dravidian temples near Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram, 60 km south of Chennai). These were built around A.D. 500. This style flourished for centuries and reached its zenith when the massive structures in Madurai and Rameswaram were built, around A.D. 1600.
  full article in the link below 
  http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2201/stories/20050114000106500.htm

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