Various parts of the figure's body are represented as animals, and some are in the form of human faces.

However, some scholars have also posited that it might depict Pashupati, or that it might have functioned as a dvarapala (door guardian statue).

It was focused around the southeast of the Devrani Temple, near its entrance, and the Rudra Shiva was unearthed here on 17 January 1988.

[1][2] Based on the lack of damage to the statue, it is posited that it was deliberately buried, rather than having fallen down accidentally.

The front-facing heads have smiling faces, and folded hands emerging from them (in the anjali posture).

[4][6] The figure has an erect penis, composed of the head and neck of a tortoise, while its forelimbs constitute the testicles.

While the ithyphallic nature of the statue points to this conclusion, it does not contain any of the other characteristic features of Shiva.

If the spot where it was excavated (by the doorway of the Devrani temple) was where the figure originally stood, it might have functioned as a dvarapala, or "door guardian" statue.