Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c10.s2.4

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¹ Further up this valley, at the village of Ratanvāḍi, is an old temple which, like this, has an extra door to the shrine through the back wall. At Sinnar, in the village, is another old temple with four doors to the shrine, which has already been noticed. The old temple of Siddhanātha at Mandlātā, in the Narmadā, has a shrine with four doors, but, in this case, the shrine is the central feature of the general plan, which is that of a Greek cross, the arms being the porches in front of the doors. One other shrine, with four doors, is that in the village of Unkal, in the Dhārwār District, described in my volume on Chālukyan architecture. This last is of the same plan as that at Sinnar.