The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c10.s2.5

c10.s2.5

Before the entrance doorway of the temple is a porch, with two heavy square pillars like those inside, but this has been enveloped within a large open pillared hall which has been added at a subsequent time. Two of the four central pillars of this addition are crowded up against the two pillars of the porch. The latter are a little more ornamental than those of Mālegitti-Śivālaya, being square at the base, octagonal above, with a heavy square mass in the middle, carved with arabesque ornament. At the bottom of the outer door, on the south side, is a little fat Kuvera-like figure similar to those on the Jaina temple at Paṭṭadakal; that on the other side is left in block. There is a *dhandraśila*, or half moon-shaped doorstep in front of the hall door, but this is very likely an addition placed there when the outer hall was built.