It is also known by the name of Bandi temple and is situated between Rampur and Uri on the Uri highway. The temple is built on the pattern of the Buniyar temple. The central shrine faces northeast and is built of green limestone. This temple also has a double basement. The ceiling of the temple is domical. The entrance gateway to the temple follows the usual pattern. The jambs of the entrance are the transverse wall and are ornamented with vertical rows of panels depicting river goddesses and other figures which are not defaced.
The ground plan of the temple is a square of 7.00 cm with corner pilasters 76 cm thick and 15 cm projected beyond the walls of the temple. The doorway of the temple is square with plain straight mouldings and surmounted by pediments containing trefoil ornament.1.76 m high.
The gateway of the temple is 7.16 m wide. It is divided into two parts and each measure 5.18 m wide, and 1.76 m high. The side walls of each portion are decorated with trefoil-headed niches, one above the other with pyramidal pediments. The upper part of the gateway has almost disappeared but the fragments of the four large fluted columns which supported the architrave and the capital, elaboratively carved with figures and flowers, lying at the site testify that the columns once supported the architrave. In the recent excavations, a flagstone flooring was encountered which indicated that the whole courtyard was paved with stones and subsequently kanjoor stone cells around the temple were made over an old peristyle plinth.
This temple is a unique one as it is made of soft stones and probably must have been experimented with a view to having ornamentation on the temple columns and the walls. As the temple was located outside the valley, it did not catch the eye of the iconoclast but maximum damage was caused to the temple during the Kabuli raids in 19471.
1 R.C Agrawal, Kashmir and its Monumental Glory (New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 1998), 134-136.