Dravidian architecture | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

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Dravidian architecture


00:01:01 1 History
00:02:45 1.1 Composition and structure
00:03:42 2 Influence from different periods
00:03:59 2.1 Sangam period
00:05:15 2.2 Badami Chalukyas
00:06:26 2.3 Pallavas
00:09:10 2.4 Rashtrakutas
00:10:32 2.5 Western Chalukyas
00:12:09 2.6 Pandya
00:12:54 2.7 Cholas
00:18:45 2.8 Hoysalas
00:19:50 2.9 Vijayanagara
00:22:05 2.10 Kerala
00:22:48 2.11 Jaffna
00:23:12 3 See also



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Dravidian architecture is an architectural idiom in Hindu temple architecture that emerged in the southern part of the Indian subcontinent or South India, reaching its final form by the sixteenth century. It consists primarily of Hindu temples where the dominating feature is the high gopura or gatehouse; large temples have several.  Mentioned as one of three styles of temple building in the ancient book Vastu shastra, the majority of the existing structures are located in the Southern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. Various kingdoms and empires such as the Cholas, the Chera, the Kakatiyas, the Pandyas, the Pallavas, the Gangas, the Rashtrakutas, the Chalukyas, the Hoysalas, and Vijayanagara Empire among others have made substantial contribution to the evolution of Dravidian architecture. This style of architecture can also be found in parts of North India (Teli ka Mandir Gwalior, Bhitargaon Baitala Deula, Bhubaneshwar), Northeastern and central Sri Lanka.