Architectural Survey of Temples : No. 3. Cave Temples of the Deccan

From the Preface: "This volume, covering a survey of the whole series of the Brahmanical Cave Temples in the Deccan, was carried out by the author on behalf of the Archaeological Survey of India, under the Temple Survey Project (Southern Region) during the period, between 1964 and 1968. It is a continuance of the story, in so far as early rock-cut art under Hinduism is concerned, dealt with in No. 1 of the \'Architectural Surveyof Temples\' series of the Archaeological survey of India, published in 1964, on the \'Cave temples of the Pallavas\' as also the part-narrative on the early cave temples in Kerala, to be found in No. 2 of the same series--the field work for which succeeded that of the present book.

This work presents to the world of scholars and interested researchers alike, a conspectus of the major and minor creations of the cave-art enterprise, as fostered in the Deccan between the Narmada and the North Pennar rivers and from the Arabian coast to the Bay of Bengal, in the periods approximately between the 6th century A.D. and 10 century A.D. by various dynasties, the foremost among whom were, doubtless, the early Western and Eastern Chalukyas of Badami and Vengi, and the Rashtrakutas of Elapura."