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Kandariya Mahadeva Temple is located in the Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh in Central India. [2] It is in the Khajuraho village, and the temple complex is spread over an area of 6 square kilometres (2.3 sq mi). [1] It is in the western part of the village to the west of the Vishnu temple. [3] [4] The temple complex, in the Khajuraho ...
Kandariya Mahadeva Temple plan is 109 ft in length by 60 ft, and rises 116 ft above ground and 88 ft above its own floor. The central padas are surrounded by three rows of sculptured figures, with over 870 statues, most being half life size (2.5 to 3 feet).
Example with the plan of the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple in Khajuraho with the subsidiary sanctuaries : see numbers 9 Layout in Hindu temple architecture Hindu temples are built in the panchayatana ( Sanskrit : पञ्चायतन , romanized : pañcāyatana ) layout: the main shrine is surrounded by four subsidiary shrines.
Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, Khajuraho, with 84 urushringa around the shikhara Detail of the same temple. Urushringa (Sanskrit: uruśṛn̍ga उरुशृङ्ग, lit. having high peak) is a subsidiary tower springing from the sides of the main shikhara tower in the Hindu temple architecture of northern India.
Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, commissioned by Vidyadhara. Vidyadhara commissioned the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple at Khajuraho. [14] Epigraphic inscriptions on a pilaster of the mandapa in the temple mentions a king called "Virimda", which is interpreted as another name of Vidhyadhara. [15]
[5]: 22 The largest and currently most famous surviving temple is Kandariya Mahadeva built in the reign of King Vidyadhara. [6] The temple inscriptions suggest many of the currently surviving temples were complete between 970 and 1030 CE, with further temples completed during the following decades.
The north and south walls of the temple feature erotic reliefs. [15] [20] The junction of the vestibule and the sanctum features a variation of the famous "acrobatic sex" sculpture at the newer Kandariya Mahadeva temple. Like the Kandariya sculpture, this one also features a couple supported by two women, but in this sculpture, the man is on ...
Kandariya Mahadeva temple carvings. By the end of Vidyadhara's reign, the Ghaznavid invasions had weakened the Chandela kingdom. Taking advantage of this, the Kalachuri king Gangeya-deva conquered eastern parts of the kingdom. [35] Chandela inscriptions suggest that Vidyadhara's successor Vijayapala (r. c. 1035–1050 CE) defeated Gangeya in a ...