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Chai>. I. TEMPLE AT BUCHEOPDLLY. 380
Temple at liuchroimlly. (From a Photograph.)
disposed equidistantly, without any attempt at the octagonal dome
of the Jains or the varied arrangements subsequently attempted.
Although of no great magnificence in itself, this temple is inter-
esting as possessing all the features which distinguish the Chalukyan
style from those that surround it either on the north or south.
Instead of their square plans, this one is practically star-shaped.
The Sikra is a straight-lined cone, and its decorations in steps is
as unlike the Dravidian spire in storeys as it is to the curvilinear
outline of the Jaina or northern temples. The porcli, too, is open,
and consists of columns spaced equidistantly over its floor, without
either the bracketing arrangements of the southern or the domical
forms of the northern styles. Situated as it was locally, half-way
between the Dravidian and northern styles, the Chalukyan borrowed
occasionally a feature or form from one or from the other, but never
to such an extent as to obliterate its individuality, or to prevent its
being recognised as a separate and distinct style of architecture.
When the Nizam's territory is examined, we shall probably be
able to trace all the steps by which this simple village example
developed into the metropolitan temple of Hammoncondah, the old
capital, six miles north of Worangul. According to an inscription
on its walls, this temple was erected, in A.D. 1163, by Pratapa Rudra,1
1 Prinsep'l ' Useful Tables,' re-edited by Thomas, pp. 267-268.
Temple at liuchroimlly. (From a Photograph.)
disposed equidistantly, without any attempt at the octagonal dome
of the Jains or the varied arrangements subsequently attempted.
Although of no great magnificence in itself, this temple is inter-
esting as possessing all the features which distinguish the Chalukyan
style from those that surround it either on the north or south.
Instead of their square plans, this one is practically star-shaped.
The Sikra is a straight-lined cone, and its decorations in steps is
as unlike the Dravidian spire in storeys as it is to the curvilinear
outline of the Jaina or northern temples. The porcli, too, is open,
and consists of columns spaced equidistantly over its floor, without
either the bracketing arrangements of the southern or the domical
forms of the northern styles. Situated as it was locally, half-way
between the Dravidian and northern styles, the Chalukyan borrowed
occasionally a feature or form from one or from the other, but never
to such an extent as to obliterate its individuality, or to prevent its
being recognised as a separate and distinct style of architecture.
When the Nizam's territory is examined, we shall probably be
able to trace all the steps by which this simple village example
developed into the metropolitan temple of Hammoncondah, the old
capital, six miles north of Worangul. According to an inscription
on its walls, this temple was erected, in A.D. 1163, by Pratapa Rudra,1
1 Prinsep'l ' Useful Tables,' re-edited by Thomas, pp. 267-268.