[2] It was first recorded in 2012, in an abandoned state, by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI);[3] however, it did not come to wider attention until images were posted on social media in 2017.

In late 2019 the Archaeological Survey of India was ready to restore the temple, but was awaiting permission from the local authorities.

[14] Laxshmi Greaves, a colleague of Hardy at Cardiff University, visited the temple separately in 2018, and published an account.

The blocks are closely fitted, but there are traces of mortar, and a few of reddish stucco, which probably originally covered all the reliefs, and may have been painted.

[15] Apart from erosion of the stone, the temple seems generally well-preserved, apart from damage above the entrance and a "long vertical cleft" running down the west wall, which has disrupted the left side of the exterior relief panel with Ardhanarishvara (illustrated).

[18] Usually the flat and unornamented ceiling of the sanctuary is an essential part of the "cave and mountain" architectural metaphor of a Hindu temple.

[19] Wessels-Mevissen and Hardy conclude the temple's "unique architecture provides a missing link between early timber structures and the Dråvida tradition".

[3] Inside there is now a modern plinth holding an image of Narashima, but no sign of a lingam, nor of a drainage channel for offerings.

Two other hands hold a lotus flower and a square mirror, and the last is over the head of what may be Skanda, another son of Shiva and Parvati, as a child.

[24] The large group on the exterior north wall probably shows Balarama defeating the evil asura Pralambasura, with his right arm raised to strike the fatal blow to the figure below him, whose head he holds, while his knee presses into his back.

[3] Almost the whole of the inside west (rear) wall is occupied with a large relief, crowded with figures in three registers, but with "no apparent visual narrative [that] connects all these images".

A large standing two-armed Ardhanarishvara is placed centrally at a low level, with Shiva and Parvati seated above, probably shown in their mountain home on Mount Kailasa, with Nandi.

2 at the Badami Caves in Karnataka, Early Chalukya dynasty, from around 550–570, though there Lakulisha is four-armed and ithyphallic (the latter usual for him at this period); at Devunigutta he is neither.