Annual Report of the Mysore Archaeological Department for the year 1946

The success of the work of the department in spite of the obvious want of adequate staff was due to the sincere co-operation of the members of the staff and -their readiness to work even out of office hours. [...] The concentration of the weight on the stone walls resulted in the flaking away of the edges of the stones at the joints in many places and caused vertical cracks in the stone construction and weakened the foundation. [...] A separate shrine of small dimensions may be constructed for the goddess in the open space to the north of the garbhagriha and to the east of the well. [...] The primary desideratum in the restoration of the temple is in connection with the following 1. It may be seen from the dislodged slabs in the north-west of the navaranga the doorways on the north and south and the cornices in a few places that the brick"9 super-structure above is rather heavy. [...] In the middle panel are seven of the eight Dikpalakas Indra on the elephant Agni on the ram Yama on the buffalo Niruriti on the demon Varuna on the. makara (Vayu on the deer is absent) Kubera on the horse and Byars on the bull.