Among them are images of Ashtamatrikas, Ashta Bhairavas, eight Nāgas and Dashavatara (ten avatars of Vishnu).

According to historian Dhanavajra Vajracharya Tusha Hiti got its name because the water that came from the spout tasted like sugarcane juice.

However according to Nepalese scholar Mangalananda Rajopadhyay the name is derived from the Newar word tusalegu (to draw a line) to denote the considerable distance the water had to travel from the source to the hiti.

It might have had other purposes; one historian stated that it is impossible to use the bath without splashing the images of gods with the polluted water from the human body.

Siddhinarasimha Malla was an ascetic king who could not have used the bath to offend the gods with an "impure act".

[9] According to the legend, the king used to wake up early in the morning and take a shower in the Tusha Hiti, then meditated for hours on the stone slab near the bath.

[4] After the shower, his attendants would provide him with towels and wraps, while the queen and others watched from the carved wooden windows.

[14] The Tusha Hiti can be accessed via the main entrance of Sundari Chowk in the western façade.

[4] The entire bath is shaped like yoni, a representation of female sexuality, and is surrounded by serpents.

[16] The spout occupies the northern wall of the basin (section) and the nine steps of the stairs the opposite side.

[4] The spout is made of gilt copper and decorated with the idols of the Hindu god and goddess Vishnu and Laxmi riding on Garuda.

The sides of the spout were each decorated with the same row of water related animals: a frog, a turtle, a crocodile, a fish and at the front a makara.

The top portion of the spout (Lakshmi Narayan with Garuda) is on display in the National Museum of Nepal.

[21] Together with the two serpents surrounding the bath, the entrance to Tusha Hiti is guarded by two stone lions.

[4][24] The Naricha aquifer in turn was fed by ponds in the area and these received their water from a 17th century rajkulo (royal canal).

[26] The water was further led from the source to the hitis through old, 17th century underground pipelines, made of interlocking terracotta segments, topped with bricks and covered with clay.

[27][13] Water is chanelled from the source to the Bhandrakhal Hiti through the restored 17th century, 820 metres (2,690 ft) long underground pipeline.

[29] The aquifer did receive enough water from rainfall and surface drainage at least until 2012, but the open spaces in that area of Patan that made this possible are disappearing.