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Vimanam and Eave
The projections and recesses on the sanctuary walls are carried up to the eave and the massive four-storied brick-and-plaster vimanam. At the top of the vimanam is a square kuta block while an unusual apsidal-ended projection occupies its east face. The unusually wide eave is adorned with eight rows of pendant lotus buds. Yalis replace madanikas as brackets in this part of the mandapa wall, since this is the inauspicious junction of the mandapa and the sanctuary.