Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c8.s3.5

c8.s3.5

The exterior of the *maṇḍapa* walls are finished off quite plainly. From this fact it might be inferred that there was an outer corridor with sloping cornice and *vedi* around it, for such a plain flat wall would hardly have been left on the outside of a temple whose shrine walls have been carefully decorated and wrought.