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The Khajuraho Group of Monuments are a group of Hindu and Jain temples in Chhatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh, India.They are about 175 kilometres (109 mi) southeast of Jhansi, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Khajwa, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from Rajnagar, and 49 kilometres (30 mi) from district headquarter Chhatarpur.
The earliest is the Samvat 1011 (AD 954) in the Parshvanath Temple, [6] and the last is Samvat 1234 (1177 AD, it is also the last Chandella era inscription in Khajuraho [7]). [8] Pratishtha events must have taken place in Samvat 1205 and 1215 with multiple images of those years.
Khajuraho (pronunciation ⓘ) is a city, near Chhatarpur in Chhatarpur district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. One of the most popular tourist destinations in India , Khajuraho has the country's largest group of medieval Hindu and Jain temples , famous for their erotic sculptures .
The temples of Khajuraho were built by the rulers of the Chandela dynasty between the 10th and the 12th centuries. Devi Jagadambika temple, in a group to the north, is one of the most finely decorated temples at Khajuraho. It is named after Jagadambika, a Hindu goddess related to devi. Three bands of carvings encircle the body of the temple.
Unlike other temples in Khajuraho, its sanctum is Pancharatha on plan (top-view). Its shikhara is clustered with minor urushringas (refer images of temple top i.e. shikhara). The wall portion is studded with balconied windows with ornate balustrades. It has two rows of sculptures (refer images of temple's outer wall) including divine figures ...
The temple is among the Western group of temples on a 5.4 m high platform. [6] It has a rectangular plan measuring 31.4 m x 18.3 m. [ 6 ] [ 3 ] It is one of the historic Yogini temples across India; many of the others have a circular plan, [ 7 ] though those at Rikhiyan and Badoh are also rectangular, so there was at least a local tradition of ...
The temple was built by Yasovarman of the Chandela Dynasty in c. 1100 CE. [1] [2]: 22 This is the only temple in Khajuraho which lacks erotic sculptures. [1] As part of the Khajuraho Group of Monuments, the temple was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1986 because of its architecture and testimony to the Chandela dynasty. [3]
Parshvanatha temple (IAST: Pārśvanātha Mandir) is a 10th-century Jain temple at Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh, India. It is now dedicated to Parshvanatha, although it was probably built as an Adinatha shrine during the Chandela period. Despite the temple's Jain affiliation, its exterior walls feature Vaishnavaite themes.