 This Hoysala temple, according to the art critic and historian Settar, deployed the Western Chalukyan artists and their tradition that originally developed in Aihole, Badami and Pattadakal.It is simpler than later Hoysala temples (including the Hoysaleswara temple at Halebidu and the Keshava temple at Somanathapura).The temple is built on a "jagati" (literally, "worldly"), a symbolic worldly platform with a wide walking space for circumambulation ("pradakshina-patha").