The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c10.s1.5
The Chālukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c10.s1.5
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The shrine doorway is fairly well moulded but is not decorated, and has Garuḍa on the lintel. This, with Viṣṇu in the ceiling, shows, unmistakably, that the temple was originally Vaiṣṇava. Within the shrine is a low stand or altar for an image, but into the mortise in the top has been inserted a stone to serve as a *liṅga*. That this was not intended as a *śaluṅkā* or *yoni* for a *liṅga* is evident from the fact that the present *liṅga* does not occupy the centre of it (see section, Plate XXXII).