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CHALUKYAN STYLE.
Book V,
BOOK V.
CHALUKYAN STYLE.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
contents.
Temple at Buchropully — Kirti Starabha at Worangnl — Temples at Somnathptir
and Baillur—The Kait Iswara at Hullabkl—Temple at Hullabid.
Ok the three styles into which Hindu architecture naturally divides
itself, the Chalukyan is neither the least extensive nor the least beau-
tiful, but it certainly is the least known. The very name of the
people was hardly recognised by early writers on Indian subjects,
and the first clear ideas regarding them were put forward, in 1826,
in a paper by Sir Walter Elliot, in the fourth volume of the ' Journal
of the Royal Asiatic Society.' To this he added another paper, in
the twentieth volume of the ' Madras Journal': and since then
numerous inscriptions of this dynasty and of its allied families have
been found, and translated by General Le Grand, Jacob and others, in
the 'Bombay Journal,' and by Professor Dowson in the 'Journal of
the Royal Asiatic Society' here.1
From all this we gather that early in the 6th century of our
era2 this family rose into importance at Kalyan—in what is now the
Nizam's territory—and spread eastward as far as the shores of the
Bay of Bengal, in the neighbourhood of the mouths of the Kistnah and
Godavery. They extended, in fact, from shore to shore, right across
the peninsula, and occupied a considerable portion of the country
now known as Mysore, and northward extended as far, at least, as
Lowlutabad.
1 Vol. i. (N.S.) p. 247, et scqq.
2 Professor Eggeling tells me he lias
great reason for suspecting the date 411
for Palakesi I. ('Journal of the Royal
Asiatic Society,' vol. iv. p. 8) to be a
forgery. There is something certainly
wrong about it, but how the error arose
is not yet clear. It seems at least a
century too early. See the ' Journal of
the Royal Asiatic Society,'vol. iv. p. 12;
ibid., vol. iv. (N.S.) p. 93.
CHALUKYAN STYLE.
Book V,
BOOK V.
CHALUKYAN STYLE.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
contents.
Temple at Buchropully — Kirti Starabha at Worangnl — Temples at Somnathptir
and Baillur—The Kait Iswara at Hullabkl—Temple at Hullabid.
Ok the three styles into which Hindu architecture naturally divides
itself, the Chalukyan is neither the least extensive nor the least beau-
tiful, but it certainly is the least known. The very name of the
people was hardly recognised by early writers on Indian subjects,
and the first clear ideas regarding them were put forward, in 1826,
in a paper by Sir Walter Elliot, in the fourth volume of the ' Journal
of the Royal Asiatic Society.' To this he added another paper, in
the twentieth volume of the ' Madras Journal': and since then
numerous inscriptions of this dynasty and of its allied families have
been found, and translated by General Le Grand, Jacob and others, in
the 'Bombay Journal,' and by Professor Dowson in the 'Journal of
the Royal Asiatic Society' here.1
From all this we gather that early in the 6th century of our
era2 this family rose into importance at Kalyan—in what is now the
Nizam's territory—and spread eastward as far as the shores of the
Bay of Bengal, in the neighbourhood of the mouths of the Kistnah and
Godavery. They extended, in fact, from shore to shore, right across
the peninsula, and occupied a considerable portion of the country
now known as Mysore, and northward extended as far, at least, as
Lowlutabad.
1 Vol. i. (N.S.) p. 247, et scqq.
2 Professor Eggeling tells me he lias
great reason for suspecting the date 411
for Palakesi I. ('Journal of the Royal
Asiatic Society,' vol. iv. p. 8) to be a
forgery. There is something certainly
wrong about it, but how the error arose
is not yet clear. It seems at least a
century too early. See the ' Journal of
the Royal Asiatic Society,'vol. iv. p. 12;
ibid., vol. iv. (N.S.) p. 93.