The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c12.s2.2

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The pillars, within the temple, have round shafts and capitals, but with square bases. They are rather thick and clumsy-looking, and are a step in advance of those in the Navaliṅga temple (Plate LVI). There are six windows in the hall, two of which are formed of plain cross bars, giving eight small square lights in each, the others having circular lights produced by a tracery of floral scroll work. A colossal bull has been placed in the porch, looking inwards to the *liṅga* which occupies the shrine. The temple faces the east.