Photograph of a perforated stone temple window at Nursapoor. It is divided into horizontal bands of bas reliefs separated by long narrow openings, which allow light into the interior of the temple. Small medallions contain figures of men and animals. The scenes represented in the reliefs are from the epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

Nursapoor, on the banks of the Vasishtha, a tributary of the river Godavari, was once a Dutch port in the colonial era. Prior to this it was part of the territory of the Chalukyas, innovative temple builders who left a rich legacy of Hindu and Jain temples.