Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture: South India. pt. 1 Lower Drāviḍadēśa, 200 B.C.-A.D. 1324 (2 v.) pt. 3 Upper Drāviḍadēśa, later phase, A.D. 973-1326 (2 v.)

Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture: South India. pt. 1 Lower Drāviḍadēśa, 200 B.C.-A.D. 1324 (2 v.) pt. 3 Upper Drāviḍadēśa, later phase, A.D. 973-1326 (2 v.) written by George Michell and published by Manohar Publishers and Distributors. This book was released on 1983 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This part studies the period of the Vijayanagara empire during the time in which the Sangama, Tuluva and Aravidu kings ruled over a substantial portion of Karnata, Andhra and Tamilndau. The volume begins with temple architecture in the decades immediately preceding the establishment of the Vijayanagara empire in the middle of the fourteenth century, and continues with the study of religious monuments of the lesser dynasties which succeeded Vijayanagara in Karnata during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.