The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c8.s10.1

c8.s10.1

Outside the south-west corner of the village on the bank of the stream is temple No. 11. This is rather a curious building which looks more like a maṭha which had been converted into a temple by the addition of a shrine on the west side (Plate XXIII). The hall is square, with four heavy pillars in the centre. The lofty portion of the ceiling, over the space above the four pillars, has been carried on, at the same height to the north wall, the other three sides being under a lower and sloping roof. There is a wide opening in the west wall and, against this opening, outside, but not bonded with it, has been built a shrine with its own doorway. The masonry of the shrine and that of the hall hardly touch each other at their junction. The shrine doorway is very plain and has no dedicatory block. On the front of the beam of the hall over the opening to the shrine is a little figure, seated cross-legged, with two hands raised upwards towards the breast from the elbows, and each holding a lotus bud, in exactly the same position as the image of Sūrya on the back wall of the upper shrine of Lāḍ Khān's temple.