Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c8.s1.4

c8.s1.4

The ceiling patterns are similar to those of Ambarnātha. The central bay is domed, and rises, in two ascending rings of cusped mouldings, to the centre, which then falls in a cusped rosette pendant. The corners, in the angles between the beams and the circle of the dome, are filled with florid kīrtimukhas. The marginal ceilings of the hall are coved upwards from the walls to the tops of the beams over the central pillars, and are decorated with lines of ribbing as at Ambarnātha. The ceiling of the shrine is hardly less elaborately decorated than that of the hall, while that in the porch has been like that of the hall, but it is very much weatherworn.