Photograph of the southern door in the east front of the Great Temple at Hullabeed. The half-open wooden door is flanked by two carved stone Hindu deities in female form. Each is highly decorated and is wearing traditional Indian ceremonial dress and a headdress. Adjacent to the figures are perforated stone slabs and decorated pillars.

The temple at Hullabeed was built during the thirteenth century, but was never completed. Its plan reveals that it is a double temple, although dedicated to a single god Siva. It has two Vimanas, or sanctuaries, on the west front and two Mandapas, or porches, on the east side, each containing a colossal statue of the bull Nundi, the emblem of divine justice. The Hullabeed temple is considered to exhibit some of the finest examples of elaborate Indian stone carving. The text comments on the 'flatness of the skyline' of the temple, a result of its unfinished spires.