The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c11.s3.4

c11.s3.4

Like most of these old Jaina temples, this one had an upper shrine which was entered from the roof of the hall, and for this purpose a great stone ladder was placed in the northeast corner of the hall under an opening through the roof. As already mentioned a similar ladder was found against the wall of the Kont-Guḍi at Aihoḷe. The four pillars in the hall are of the same type as those in that temple, but are, with the pillars in the porch, which have round shafts, a considerable advance towards the later mediæval type.