of other smaller size allied deities carved in the lower parts of the walls, each within a niche separate by a pilaster. The figure on the east wall, to the right of the door, is a skeleton form of Bhairava, the counterpart of Chamunda. The other, carved on the north wall, rises from ground, having filled his skull-cup with the blood of a person whose severed head lies on the right. On the pedestal is an offering of two more heads on a tray resting on a tripod, flanked by a jackal feasting on the decapitated body on the right and a woman holding a head on the left. The tantric character of the temple is also marked by the stone post, to which sacrificial offerings were tethered, just in front of the jagamohana. Artificial light is needed to see in the darkness of the interior, though early morning sun lights up the interior. Gallery See also Varahi Deula, Chaurasi List of temples in Bhubaneswar Footnotes External links The chamunda temple The Chamuda form of Durga in Bhubaneswar More pictures on Vaital deuḷa Vaitala Deula (Teeni Mundia Deula) Hindu temples in Bhubaneswar Shakti temples 9th-century Hindu temples