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The
mantapa or pillared hall in front of Gommata is decorated with nine
well-carved ceilings. Eight of them have figures of the
ashta-dikpalakas or regents of the eight directions, while the
central one has in the middle a fine figure of Indra holding a
kalasha or water vessel for anointing Gommata. The ceilings are
artistically executed and considering the material used, namely hard
granite, the work redounds to the credit of the sculptors. From the
inscription in the central ceining, it may be inferred that the hall
was caused to be erected by the minister, Baladeva, in the early
part of the 12th century.
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