Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture -- Set V. 1@@ PT. 4

This part studies the period of the Vijayanagara empire during thetime in which the Sangama, Tuluva and Aravidu kings ruled over asubstantial portion of Karnata, Andhra and Tamilndau. The volumebegins with temple architecture in the decades immediatelypreceding the establishment of the Vijayanagara empire in themiddle of the fourteenth century, and continues with the study ofreligious monuments of the lesser dynasties which succeededVijayanagara in Karnata during the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies.