Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c10.s2.3

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The style of the temple is that of the temple of Baleśvara at Pedgaon, the walls being comparatively plain when compared with the more highly sculptured shrine. But the most interesting feature of this temple are the two doorways to the sanctum—the usual one leading from the hall, and a second opposite to it in the back wall, leading out into the open. This is peculiar and very unusual.¹ It is a Śaiva temple dedicated to the worship of the liṅga, and appears always to have been so. It faces the west. (Plates LXX—LXXIII.)