 It is one of the centrally protected monumemts of national importance.The fresco paintings are particularly detailed in very bright dresses and colours with scenes of Rama and Krishna from the epic stories of the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Puranas and they are well preserved.There is a very large Nandi (bull), mount of Shiva, about away from the temple which is carved from a single block of stone, which is said to be one of the largest of its type in the world.