
1 Acknowledgement
The terms “architectural language” and “Karnata Dravida,” like so much else in this essay and the two websites it accompanies, are taken from the seminal work of Prof. Adam Hardy of PRASADA (Practice, Research and Advancement in South Asian Design and Architecture,) University of Cardiff. Their indebtedness to his path-breaking studies in Indian architecture, (cited below,)is too evident and too frequent to allow for further citation. They first impelled the compiler and annotator of these websites, (however ill-advisably and imprecisely,) to compare Karnata Dravida and Khmer “temple mountain” traditions. Prof. Hardy’s formulation of “aedicular expansion” and the indispensable terminology he has devised to explicate it, inform the glosses of each of these one hundred and forty monuments.
Hardy, Adam, Indian Temple Architecture – Form and Transformation: the Karnata Dravida Tradition, 7th to 13th Centuries, (New Delhi, Abhinav Publishing, 1995)
Hardy, Adam, The Temple Architecture of India, (Hoboken, NJ, Wiley, 2008)
Hardy, Adam, “Parts and Wholes: The Story of the Gavaksha,” https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/2155/1/Adam%20Hardy%20Gavakshas.pdf