there is a Somaskanda panel on the rear wall,
The back wall of the central shrine retains traces of a Somaskanda group.
On the rear wall, in a special niche, is carved the usual Somaskanda panel, with Siva
It contains a Somaskanda relief as the main deity on the The Kailasanatha complex at Kanchi
The main sanctum has a Somaskanda relief panel inside a special niche high upon its rear wall
The image of Somaskanda, where the lord is seen sitting with Uma,
his consort, and Skanda, his son, is also quite popular.
Two more such Somaskanda reliefs are found carved on the hind
wall of the mandapa on either side of the shrine entrance.
It contains a Somaskanda relief as the main deity on the The Kailasanatha complex at Kanchi
is a joint venture of Rajasimha and his son Mahendra III.
In the Siva shrine of the Tirup- parankunram cave- temple,
there is a Somaskanda panel on the rear wall,
as in the Pallava cave- temples of the close of the seventh century and subsequent structural temples.
In Rajasimha' s cave- temple, the Atiranachanda mandapam, a black polished, fluted or sixteen- sided stone linga( dhara- linga)
also came to be planted on the floor of the sanctum in front of the Somaskanda relief on the hind wall.
The main sanctum has a Somaskanda relief panel inside a special niche high upon its rear wall
and visible above the top of the fluted linga stele, planted without a pitha on the sanctum floor, unlike the other Rajasimha temples where the linga more or less hides the Somaskanda panel, set at the centre of the rear wall.