Temples: history, architecture and distribution

[ramana]

I have been to the Thousand Pillar Temple in Hanmakonda during my college days. It was my first sight of a desecrated Hindu temple and brought a lot of angst. I had read in history books about the Kaktiyas and the fall of Pratapa Rudra and how Warangal was ransacked but didnt quite understand what it ment. I know the statue of the Nandi before the temple. The bad people had smashed the Nandi's vitals as they could not destroy the whole statue.

The next set of desecrated temples that I saw were those of Hampi Vijaynagagram. Especially the temple of Ugra Narasimha.