No pre-7th century CE South Indian free-standing stone temples have survived. Examples of early major South Indian temples which have survived, some in ruins, consist of the various variations at Mahabalipuram, from your seventh and 8th generations. According to Meister, the Mahabalipuram temples are "monolithic designs of several different formal https://newsnetworklives.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-beacon-of-spiritual-harmony-and.html