The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c34.s2.1

c34.s2.1

All that remains of this temple is the closed hall; the shrine, antechamber, porches and outer hall, if it had one, have disappeared. When British troops were first quartered in the fort this building appears to have had another room added to it, where the shrine once stood, and was thus, with other additions, converted into a Sergeants’ Mess with this cryptic label attached, “ Qrs. No. 2 ”. The interior was then whitewashed, but the beautifully moulded pillars and a finely-carved antechamber doorway were spared that degradation. The outside walls are moulded in much the same simple style as the Jaina temples just described, while the doorways are fully decorated. There are indications of porches which stood before the north and south doorways and a porch or outer hall before the eastern door (Plate CXXXV).