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- A pradakshina or circumambulatory path surrounds the tank.
- The two circumambulatory passages have vaulted roof.
- There is a surrounding circumambulatory path.
- There is also a circumambulatory passage to go round the main shrine in a clockwise direction.
- There is a protruding chamber with a pillared antechamber and a separate pillared mandapa in front, placed beyond the circumambulatory passage.
- At both terraces there is a circumambulatory path, the lower about 4.5 metres wide and the upper about 3 metres wide.
- Along the circumambulatory path around the inner sanctum, original frescoes of the 12 Deeds of the Shakyamuni and Thousand Buddhas of the Aeons are seen.
- It may have served as " parikrama " path so it is " sandhara " ( with circumambulatory path ) type of temple.
- The Chola fresco paintings were discovered in 1931 within the circumambulatory passage of the Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, and are the first Chola specimens discovered.
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh had the steps on the two sides of the sarovar, formerly left unfinished by Budh Singh and Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, completed and its circumambulatory passage paved.
- The Nayak style ( 1600-1750 CE ) is noted for the addition of large " prakaram " ( outer courtyard ) ( circumambulatory paths ) and pillared halls.
- In South Indian temples, Bhikshatana is prescribed to be enshrined as an " avarana-devata " ( a deity depicted on the circumambulatory path encircling the central shrine ).
- Five low steps and a threshold lead into the central Linga-shrine which is wide and deep and has a circumambulatory path ( " Pradakshina-path " ) around it.
- The present structure of most of these temples is a two-storeyed vimana with a square garbhagriha and a surrounding circumambulatory path, an ardha-mandapa and a narrower maha-mandapa.
- The broad " parikrama " path for doing circumambulatory rounds on all sides of the " garbhamandira " ( sanctum sanctorum ) are built like Buddhist " chaityas " and Christian Churches.
- Owing to the continuous exposure to smoke and soot from the lamps and burning of camphor in the sanctum sanctorum over a period of centuries certain parts of the Chola paintings on the circumambulatory passage walls had been badly damaged.
- Many renovations have been carried out, much of the current structure dates to the fifteenth CCE . The temple covers an area of over and faces south, constructed so that the setting sun strikes the sanctum even though it is cloistered within three circumambulatory paths.
- In the inner walls of the prakara ( circumambulatory passage ) there is galaxy of images of Durga, Kartikeya, Bhavati, Tripurantaka, Garudarudha-Vishnu, Asura Samhara ( slaying of demons ), Narasimha ( Vishnu's avatar ), Trivikrama ( another Vishnu's avatar ), Shiva Tandava ( Shiva in a dancing pose ), Shiva severing the fifth head of Brahma, desecration of Vali offering prayers to " Atmalinga Chandikeshvara ."