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THE DECCAN & SOUTH INDIA
Gavunda for feeding the visitors to the Samyukta-ratnākara-caityālaya constructed by him at Mugunda.
The period under reference, in so far as the dynasties of the later Cāļukyas, Hoysaļas, Yådavas and Kakatiyas were concerned, could be said to involve a certain degree of cross-fertilization of two basic structural traditions, that of the 'northern' and the 'southern'. The Hoysaļas and, to a certain extent, the Kakatiyas, were prone to prefer the 'southern' temple-form in the delineation of the main shrine and its tower, but with a deliberate admixture of elements which diagnostically should relate to the 'northern' style, as for example the jagati-terrace, the layout of the nava-ranga or sabhā-mandapa with catuṣkiporches, the multiple ratha-offsets of the ground plan of the main shrine and the carrying vertically upwards the of ribbing of the projections and recessions in order to stimulate a 'northern' sikhara rather than a southern vimāna-tower. The Jainas, while still continuing to adopt these predilections, had been, by the very reduction of the exterior ornamentation, less guilty of a deliberate camouflage of the two major schools of orders of vastu-vidya. The exterior is often severely plain, except for a bandhana-moulding with diamond-pattern or vimāna-models in the anurathas of the karna and bhadra. The decorations of the dhvaja-stambha and often the bali-pitha had been of a very ornate character with a regular miniature pavilion at the top carrying usually a Brahmadeva figure.
The Later Caļukyas, having geographically bridged the upper and the lower Deccan, and with considerable liaison and frequent vicissitudes of thrones in their impacts with the Yādavas, Kaļacūris, etc., practised both the northern and southern styles, although committed to the latter in the southernDeccan area. The Kakatiyas had, by and large, become the subordinates and allies of the Kalyāpi Cāļukyas under whom Proļa I, their founder, doubtless received the Hanamkonda-Warangal area as a fief and had been controlling mainly the eastern half of Andhradeśa.
The Seuņa-Yadavas had their main seat in Nasik District in early times and later shifted the capital to Devagiri (modern Daulatabad near Aurangabad) under Jaitugi in 1196. Singhana, who came to the throne in 1200, was the most illustrious king. Of the later kings, Mahādeva (1261-70) was notable, and Hemādri, his minister, is legendarily associated with the building of temples in the Khandesh area in the Hemădpanthi style, which is really the Bhūmija style of the Paramāras and others. The Yadavas, who had essentially been rooted to Madhyadeśa, deliberately professed the Bhūmija style which
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