The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c8.s1.5

c8.s1.5

hall. The square shrine stands within a larger compartment whose outer walls completely envelop it, leaving a passage all round between them and the walls of the shrine. This circumscribing passage, which is but dimly lighted by small perforated stone windows in the walls, is divided up into small rooms by cross-walls and pilasters. Out before the shrine is a small hall or antechamber, and, beyond this again, is a larger hall which has been roughly rebuilt in later times upon the plinth of an older one.