Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c13.s4.2

c13.s4.2

Occupying the principal niche on the back of the temple, outside, is a standing image of Sūrya; and, as this is the position of the leading image on the exterior, and usually has direct connection with the image in the shrine, it is just possible that the temple may have been intended as a temple to Sūrya. Of the other two principal niches, that on the south has an image of a devī, but which one it is impossible to say, owing to its mutilated state. The north niche is empty. One of the side shrines of the modern temple at the head of the descent into the crater, close by, near the tank and gaumukha, contains some old loose images of Sūrya and Narasimha which may have come from this temple.