 Among the most exceptional monuments of the Bias valley is the temple of Baijnath. The village of that name is located 23 miles east of Nagarkot, as the crow flies, close to the Mandi border and around the principal road which leads in the Punjab plains through Kangra, Kulu, Lahul, and Ladakh to Central Asia.
Baijnath is the truth is the appellation with the chief temple dedicated to SivaVaidyanatha ("Lord of Physicians") which has know the Village itself. The authentic title with the village was Kiragrama.
The Baijnath temple is orientated because of west. It includes a puri or adytum, eight ft square inside and 18 feet outside, surmounted by a spire of the usual conical shape, and cf a mandapa or entrance hall, twenty feet square inside, covered with a lower pyramid formed roof.
Each the south and north wall of the mandapa are adorned with a graceful balcony window. The four corners are strengthened by indicates of huge buttress-like projections within the form of half-engaged - miniature sikhara temples, each and every containing two niches through which picture slabs are positioned.
Scaled-down niches in slightly projecting chapels are located in between the corner projections as well as the entrance and balcony windows.
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