 The carvers are not supposed to eat, drink or smoke in the enclosure.The carvings are completed in 21 days, during which the carvers are not supposed to leave the temple; they sleep in the temple courtyard, and eat "mahaprasad".Devotional songs are sung by "devadasis", accompanied by temple musicians, outside the "koili vaikuntha" during the carving period; "shlokas" from the Vedas are chanted by Brahmin priests.