History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v1.c19.s17.10

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with a slight extension on the west side and gopurams on the other three, all in the style of the 16th and 17th centuries, having the lower storeys in stone and the upper in brick—though stone is more easily procurable in such a locality. The temples are now dedicated to Mallikârjuna, a form of Siva, and to Bhrâmarambhâ or Mâdhava and Pârvatî. The sculptures on the walls of the court are irregularly disposed in blocks in the upper four courses on the outer face. They are almost a counterpart of those on the walls of the Hazâra-Râma temple at Vijayanagar, and belong to the same period. Indeed, one is led to suppose that they were carved for the construction of a shrine rather than for the enclosure wall, into the upper courses of which they are now built in an irregular way.