How did temples (architecture) evolve in South India?

South Indian Architecture, mainly temple-oriented cum palaces built for Kings designed, I can place them under a general category Dravidian Architecture. It is not that ancient as the Dravidians hysterical claim due to ignorance of history taking it to 15000 BCE, but around 300 BCE. read more

The Dravidian architecture owes much to Vasthu sastra from which the basic design were taken to build temples all over south India encompassing the present Tamilnadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra and his ambivalent brother Telangana extending its influence over Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Indonesia. read more

However, there are also many subsidiary shrines within temple complexes, more common in the South Indian temple. In the initial stages of its evolution, the temples of North and South India were distinguished on the basis of some specific features like sikhara and gateways. read more

Dravidian architecture is an architectural idiom in Hindu temple architecture that emerged in the southern part of the Indian subcontinent or South India, reaching its final form by the sixteenth century. read more