Photograph of the west front of the northern Vimana at the Great Temple at Hullabeed. Three pavilions project from the Vimana and each has a pair of figures representing Siva with Parvati seated on his knee. The Vimana is constructed of twenty-four facets, each of which is occupied by a deity.   

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.