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Kaliyadaman: Krsna dancing on the head of serpent Kaliya, on a ceiling in the Adisvara temple, Ranakpur.
rets surmounting these chapels. Beyond them are the five sikharas, of which the largest and the most prominent tops the central sanctuary. Four others surround a corner-shrine each, and twenty cupolas each provide a roof over a pillared hall. Access to the enclosed rectangle is made through any of the double-storeyed portals of great elegance in the middle of three walls. Of these portals the largest one is on the west, establishing it clearly as the main entrance. Each of these entrances leads through a series of columned courts and pillared halls, and to the central square sanctum. The sanctum occupies the middle of the complex composition on a raised rectangular court, measuring 29.0 x 30.5 m, with four pillared halls on all four sides. The interior of the shrines shows a cruciform chamber with caumukha marble image.
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