Mains Paper I · 1 AP Social & Cultural History · 1.6 Kakatiyas
1.6.7 Kakatiya architecture: Thousand Pillar temple, Ramappa and the Kala Thoranam
Kakatiya builders took the later Chalukya temple style and gave it a Telugu stamp: star-shaped platforms, polished black-stone pillars and bracket figures, light brick towers and sandbox foundations, seen best at the Thousand Pillar temple, the Ramappa temple and the gateways of Warangal fort.
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Key terms
- Kakatiya style
- Thousand Pillar temple
- Rudreswara
- Hanumakonda
- trikuta
- Rudradeva
- 1163
- Nandi
- Ramappa temple
- Kakatiya Rudreshwara
- Palampet
- Mulugu
- Recherla Rudra
- 1213
- Ramalingeswara
- star-shaped platform
- madanikas
- floating bricks
- sandbox foundation
- UNESCO 2021
- Warangal fort
- Kala Thoranam
- Kirti Thoranam
- hamsa
- Swayambhu Siva
- Ghanpur temples
- Kalyani Chalukya influence
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