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Stone used as
medium for funerary monuments
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Religion
developments, particularly bhakti cult, played an
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important role
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Early phases of
architecture consisted of rock-cut
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monuments
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Later phase is
dominated by structural buildings; Gopuras
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became larger
than the main building
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The emphasis is
on horizontality lines; one or more stories,
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topped with
stepped-pyramidal shikhara and a mushroom
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cap
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