Front view of the Kapileshvara Temple, Balod, Raipur District

Photograph of the Kapileshvara Temple, Balod, Raipur District taken by Joseph David Beglar in 1873 or 1874. At the town of Balod there are a number of temples and a ruined fort. At the east end of the town stand the Kapileshvara temple. The temple was described by Beglar in his Report of a tour...in the Central Provinces, 1873-74' : ''...a small temple named Kapileswar's, consisting of a cell with a small portico on four pillars in front. It faces west and is Saivic, with figure of Ganeça over the door: inside is a four-armed statue with Nandi on the pedestal; the cell is roofed by intersecting squares and surmounted by a tall tower roof; the execution is coarse, and style quite plain; the material granite cut and set without mortar. A bas-relief representing Hanuman well smeared with vermilion lies outside.''