The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c37.s1.4

c37.s1.4

In the courtyard of Madhukēśvara are two principal temples, which are quite close to one another, but not quite parallel, making an angle with each other of nearly seven degrees. There is nothing very interesting in the buildings themselves. At the temples are two very good pieces of stone carving, though of no great age, namely a litter or *chārpāi*, kept in a room on the south side of the court, and a throne which stands beside the doorway within the larger temple. There are, lying about, several pillars and other fragments of an older and more ornate temple than the present ones; and, in the entrance to the court, within a niche, is installed part of the shaft of one such pillar as an object of worship.