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To
the west of the Kuge-Brahmadeva pillar is a small temple dedicated
to Shanthinatha, the sixteenth of the twenty four tirthankaras which
consists of a garbhagriha, a sukhanasi and a porch, The pillars in
the porch probably belong to the late Ganga period. The image od
Shanthinatha is a standing figure, about eleven feet high, and is
made of potstone. Probably it is an image belonging to the Hoysala
or even of an earlier period. The walls and ceilings of this temple
were once adorned with paintings of which only a few traces are now
left, e.g., the figures of dancers and standing Tirthankaras and
even these fragmentary paintings deserve to be studied.
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