Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c13.s6.3

c13.s6.3

At a short distance to the east of the larger temple, and between it and the village, is a portion of an old building which, with the addition of some mud walls, has been converted into a temple by the villagers, and a *liṅga* has been placed within it. The building looks like the gateway and porch of an enclosure that once went round the big temple and its subsidiary buildings. A seat ran round the inside porch, where the Nandi now is, and within the doorway was an open hall with a seat around the sides. The doorway is elaborately carved, and has the usual Gaṇeśa on the dedicatory block. Above this, in a row of niches, are Vaiṣṇavī, Brahmī, and Pārvatī in a row, Brahmī occupying the centre. As in the big temple, there are no male deities upon the doorway save Gaṇeśa; they are all *devīs*. Nor are there any images on either side at the bottom, or upon that of the shrine of the main temple; the latter, too, has no images above the cornice over Gaṇeśa, the usual place for them being taken up by a band of lozenge-shaped ornament. Round the beams of the central dome of the main temple there is nothing but a row of *devīs* with attendants, and the only images on the main pillars of the hall are four small ones on each base, one on each side, all being *devīs*.