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  2. Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh - Wikipedia

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    The temple site is in Deogarh, also spelled Devgarh (Sanskrit: "fort of gods" [13]), in the Betwa River valley at the border of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.It is an ancient Hindu temple below the Deogarh hill, towards the river, about 500 metres (1,600 ft) from a group of three dozen Jain temples with dharmashala built a few centuries later, and the Deogarh Karnali fort built in early ...

  3. Deogarh, Uttar Pradesh - Wikipedia

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    The "Dashavatara Temple" or "Gupta Temple", built in 400-500 AD, is one of the oldest Hindu temple that is still existent until modern era. The temple dedicated to god Vishnu, was first discovered by Captain Charles Strahan. It was given its name by the archaeologist, Cunnigham.

  4. Kailasa Temple, Ellora - Wikipedia

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    The Kailasa temple (Cave 16) is the largest of the 34 Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain cave temples and monasteries known collectively as the Ellora Caves, ranging for over two kilometres (1.2 mi) along the sloping basalt cliff at the site. [5] Most of the excavation of the temple is generally attributed to the eighth century Rashtrakuta king Krishna ...

  5. History of Uttar Pradesh - Wikipedia

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    Dashavatara Temple at Deogarh was built by the Gupta Empire. The kingdom of Kosala, in the Mahajanapada era, was located within the regional boundaries of modern-day Uttar Pradesh. [9] The kingdom of the Kurus corresponds to the Black and Red Ware and Painted Gray Ware culture and the beginning of the Iron Age in North-west India, around 1000 ...

  6. Jain temples of Deogarh - Wikipedia

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    The Jain Temple complex is group of 31 Jain temples located at Deogarh in Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh built around 8th to 17th century CE. The Jain complex in Deogarh are protected by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), and managed through its Northern Circle Office located in Lucknow. [1]

  7. Nachna Hindu temples - Wikipedia

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    The Parvati Temple is a two-storey building with almost perfect square plan thick-walled sanctum of 15 feet (4.6 m) side on the outside, and is 8 feet (2.4 m) sided square inside (the garbhagriya is a cube). The temple opens to the west and stands on a jagati (platform) that is 4.5 feet (1.4 m) above the ground. The pilgrim reaches its sanctum ...

  8. Architecture of India - Wikipedia

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    Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh is a Vishnu Hindu temple built during the early 6th century, near the end of the Gupta period. The Gupta period chiefly represented a hiatus in Indian rock-cut architecture; the first wave of construction was completed before the empire was assembled, and the second wave began in the late 5th century, after its end.

  9. File:0112421 Dashavatara temples and archaeological site ...

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    English: The Dasavatara temples, also referred to as Dashavatara archaeological site, is a large site of temple ruins and mounds in Badoh-Pathari, Madhya Pradesh. According to one survey estimate by the French scholar Anne Casile, this site has remains and ruins of about sixty temples.