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HANDBOOK OF AKCHTTECTDEE.
I’iOOK T1 .
1)00K II.
IIINDU ARCHITECTURE.
CHAPTER I.
SOUTHEEN HINDU.
GONTENTS,
Historical notices — Form of Temples — Porches of Temples — Gateways — Pillared
Halls — Temples at Seringham, Trivalur, Tinnevelly, &c. — Kylas at Ellora —
Construction of Rock-cut Temples — Modern Hindu style in the South.
CHRONOLOGY.
DATES.
Kula Sechara founds Madura about the
Christian Era.
Vamsa Sechera rebuilds it, nintli century;
founds the college of Madura.
Vikrama Chola—rise of Cholan supremacy,
capital Tanjore.a.d. 821
DATES.
Vira Chola builds temple at Chillumbrum;
Ari Vari Deva, his grandson, completes
temple at ChiUumbrum.a.d. 1004
Ky las at Ellora, excavated by Cholan princes
about. 1000
Rise of Chalukya power. 105S
Trimul Naik rebuilds Madura .... 1621
The arcliitectnre of tlie Hindns may be divided into three perfectly
distinct, thong'lr contemporary, styles. The first heing tfie Sontliern
Hindn—that practised hy the Tamul races of tlie south—and wholly
confined to the countries lying hetween Cape Comorin and the
Nerhuddlia or Yindya range.
The second, the Northern or Arian Hindu, found only hetween the
Himalaya and the northern boundary of the last-mentioned style, in
the countries into wliich the Arian or Sanscrit-speaking races pene-
trated, and wliere they settled, which are now jknown as the Bengal
Presidency.
The third style is fonnd only in Cashmere and the Punjah; it
differs considerahly from the other two, though possessing more simi-
larity to the southern style than to that which intervenes hetween
them.
Of the Northern Hindu style we have very few remains, and we
shall hereafter see reason to helieve that the art of temple-building
never was practised in the North nearly to tlie extent which we find
to have prevaiied in the South.
There is perhaps no country in the world where tcmple-building
has received so extraordinary a development as in the south of India,
HANDBOOK OF AKCHTTECTDEE.
I’iOOK T1 .
1)00K II.
IIINDU ARCHITECTURE.
CHAPTER I.
SOUTHEEN HINDU.
GONTENTS,
Historical notices — Form of Temples — Porches of Temples — Gateways — Pillared
Halls — Temples at Seringham, Trivalur, Tinnevelly, &c. — Kylas at Ellora —
Construction of Rock-cut Temples — Modern Hindu style in the South.
CHRONOLOGY.
DATES.
Kula Sechara founds Madura about the
Christian Era.
Vamsa Sechera rebuilds it, nintli century;
founds the college of Madura.
Vikrama Chola—rise of Cholan supremacy,
capital Tanjore.a.d. 821
DATES.
Vira Chola builds temple at Chillumbrum;
Ari Vari Deva, his grandson, completes
temple at ChiUumbrum.a.d. 1004
Ky las at Ellora, excavated by Cholan princes
about. 1000
Rise of Chalukya power. 105S
Trimul Naik rebuilds Madura .... 1621
The arcliitectnre of tlie Hindns may be divided into three perfectly
distinct, thong'lr contemporary, styles. The first heing tfie Sontliern
Hindn—that practised hy the Tamul races of tlie south—and wholly
confined to the countries lying hetween Cape Comorin and the
Nerhuddlia or Yindya range.
The second, the Northern or Arian Hindu, found only hetween the
Himalaya and the northern boundary of the last-mentioned style, in
the countries into wliich the Arian or Sanscrit-speaking races pene-
trated, and wliere they settled, which are now jknown as the Bengal
Presidency.
The third style is fonnd only in Cashmere and the Punjah; it
differs considerahly from the other two, though possessing more simi-
larity to the southern style than to that which intervenes hetween
them.
Of the Northern Hindu style we have very few remains, and we
shall hereafter see reason to helieve that the art of temple-building
never was practised in the North nearly to tlie extent which we find
to have prevaiied in the South.
There is perhaps no country in the world where tcmple-building
has received so extraordinary a development as in the south of India,