[1] The basadi originally consisted of three cells standing in a line and opening into a narrow passage.

The basadi is south facing and the cells on either side have small towers over them resembling the chole type.

The screens are pierced with square openings are carved with minute sculptures, interpreted, in the light of Jaina tradition, as the scenes from the lives of the Srutakevali, Bhadrabahu and Chandragupta Maurya.

The outer walls are decorated with pilasters, friezes, niches, the heads and trunks of lions mostly in pairs facing each other.

He is very probably identical with the sculptor who carved some of the fine bracket images of the Chennakesava temple at Belur and therefore the period of the screens and the doorway would be about the middle of the 12th century A.D.