The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c8.s3.8

c8.s3.8

By the side of Kont-Guḍi is another of these early temples, with the same unusual arrangement of the shrine (Plate VIII). The building is more like a long open verandah, facing east, with three rows of columns in its depth; in fact, it is, in plan, remarkably like a simple early Muḥammadan mosque. The shrine is just where the miḥrāb would have been, being formed by enclosing the space between the central pair of back pillars and the back wall, the doorway being between the pillars. The pillars in this temple are of the same type as those at Lāḍ Khān's, and are decorated with broad bands around the shafts, with medallions above them and vertical strips on the face of each connecting them with medallions below. These have been all richly chased with arabesque.