Pallava Architecture, Part I (MASI 17) c2.93

c2.93

The rock-cut temples at Bezwada are excavated in the eastern and western slopes of the Indrakila hill. There is only one cave-temple on the western side and this is situated immediately above the Powder Magazine belonging to the Public Works Department and faces the waterworks at the foot of the hill. It is a fairly large natural cavern that shows signs of having been partly worked in order to convert it into a shrine, but apparently the work was never completed. It is of no particular archæological interest.