The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c8.s1.11

c8.s1.11

The outer walls are severely plain, being relieved by alternate square projections and recesses with pilastered corners. It was evidently intended to decorate the projecting panels with sculpture, for the faces of the central blocks at the corners have been left rough for this purpose, and the intermediate ones have shallow niches in which to fix loose sculptures. Two of the latter lie on the west side of the temple upon the ground. One of these represents two standing figures—a man and a woman. The man holds an offering which seems to be in a pot, while the woman stands upon his right. In the other, the man also holds an offering, but the woman is on his left. Placed in the two niches on either side or the back of the temple, they would be symmetrically arranged, that is, both looking towards or from the centre. A band of small figures, in panels, with some arabesque, runs round the plinth. Many of the little *chaitya*-window ornaments have been left in block, in an unfinished state. There is no doubt the temple was never completed, and, probably, the tower was not built.