Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c8.s1.10

c8.s1.10

This particular temple had, like No. 4, a star-shaped plan, though little now is left of it. In its upturned floor—in all probability the work of Muhammadans in search of treasure—is a huge linga, while in a large niche in the back wall is a standing female image, the bust alone remaining, the rest having disintegrated away. This was probably an image of Pārvatī in one of her forms; and this being such a prominent and important image, here, it is possible she also occupied the north shrine in temple No. 1.