Talk:Dravidian architecture

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Wiki Raja (talk) 19:56, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

built by the Tamil people??? This is gross incorrect uncited information, Please correct it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.231.206.5 (talk) 05:59, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

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Relevance of Sri Lankan section
Good morning !

I think we need to rethink the relevance of the Sri Lankan part of this article. As is generally accepted, Dravidian architecture is a “style of temple architecture”. The section devoted to the presumed “Sri Lankan” variant of Dravidian architecture clearly goes further by developing notions such as the “Euro-Dravidian” style, which is something new. The example of this style of architecture, the Mantri Manai in suburban Jaffna, is most likely to be a building in line with the common Sri Lankan architectural style that prevailed in modern times in the whole island, with indeed Western architectural influences and similarities with the vernacular architecture of the extreme south of India (notably Kerala and to a lesser extent Tamil Nadu). Rather than an academically unrecognized "Euro-Dravidian" style, which seems misleading.

Likewise, the other examples shown, such as the Nallur Kandaswamy Temple or the Nagapooshani Temple, are difficult to classify as models of a specific variant of Dravidian architecture. They are both recently to very recently built temples (in their current forms), and the few readily available publications on Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu temples and their history tend to state that the architecture of Sri Lankan Tamil temples had been more "modest" historically. , perhaps in line with Keralite temple architecture, rather than the Dravidian/Vijayanagari temple architecture they tend to adopt nowadays.

The few Sri Lankan Tamil temples that feature artefacts of archaeological value, such as the Koneswaram Temple in Trincomalee, do not appear to have benefited from open access scholarly research papers or literature on their ancient architectural layout. And the known facts about them are still vague. Interestingly, temples worth mentioning in connection with Dravidian architecture seem to exist in Sri Lanka, such as the Dondra Head Uppulvan temple (in the far south, near Matara), which contains significant in-situ ruins (although its history is affected by community rewrites), as well as the Nalanda Gedige (in the center, near Matale), which is a complete stone temple/vihara that has a clear connection to Dravidian architecture.

In summary, Sri Lanka seems to have been like ancient Maharashtra and the northern Deccan, where Dravidian architecture was historically present, but disappeared in favor of other architectural styles. Only a few religious buildings seem to highlight its presence on the island and seem to have been sponsored by ancient Lankan kingdoms, regardless of "ethnic" affiliations. Drusekoana (talk) 14:08, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Maybe. Perhaps more importantly Architecture of Sri Lanka mentions no Hindu temples in an style. Johnbod (talk) 14:26, 14 January 2023 (UTC)