The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c22.s1.14

c22.s1.14

This has often been called a Jaina temple, perhaps because of Gaja-Lakṣmī being found over the doorways, but, as pointed out in the architectural note, she graced the doorways of Brahmanical and Jaina doors equally, but, in the latter case, not the shrine door over which it was the rule to install a Jaina image. There is not a Jaina image or symbol about the temple, but there are images of Śiva, Viṣṇu, Gaṇapati, Brahmā, Mahākālī and other Hindu figures. It is now altogether in disuse, is much ruined and stands in a hollow.