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The Chausath Yogini Temple, Bhedaghat, also called the Golaki Math ("circular lodge"), [1] is one of India's yogini temples, but exceptionally it has shrines for 81 rather than the usual 64 yoginis. All the same, scholars include it among the 64-yogini temples (चौंसठ chausath meaning 64 in Hindi ).
The temple is believed to have been built by the Bhouma dynasty queen of Lonabhadra alias Santikaradeva II, Hiradevi during 864 CE. [4] It is the first Chausath Yogini Temple of India. The legend behind the temple, according to local priests, is that the Goddess Durga took the form of 64 demi-goddesses to defeat a demon. After the fight the 64 ...
The Chausathi Yogini Pitha in Ranipur-Jharial, near the towns of Titilagarh and Kantabanjhi in Balangir district, Odisha, is a larger hypaethral 64-yogini temple. 62 of the yogini images survive. [31] At the centre is a shrine with four pillars, holding an image of Nateshwar, Shiva as Lord of Dance. [32]
The temple is therefore known as Chausath Yogini Temple (Chausath being the Hindi for "Sixty four" [11]). It is said that the roofs over the 64 chambers and the central shrine had towers or shikharas, as those at the Chausath Yogini Temple, Khajuraho still do, but that these were removed during later modifications. [5]
The Chausath Yogini temple is a ruined Yogini temple in the Khajuraho town of Madhya Pradesh, India. Dated to the late 9th century, it is the oldest surviving temple at Khajuraho. Unlike the Yogini temples at other places, it has a rectangular plan, but like them it is hypaethral, open to the air.
The site, with several small temples on the same rocky outcrop as the Yogini temple. The Chausath Yogini Temple, built in the 9th or 10th century in Ranipur-Jharial, in an isolated position some [specify] miles from the towns of Titilagarh and Kantabanjhi in Balangir district, Odisha, is a circular, hypaethral, 64-yogini temple made of sandstone, some 50 feet in diameter.
English: Location: Bhedaghat, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh One of the oldest heritage sites in India, Chausath Yogini Temple is situated on a hilltop in Jabalpur. Built in the 11th century A.D., the temple is the abode of Goddess Durga along with 64 yoginis or shaktis considered to be the different forms of the Goddess.
The Chaunsath Jogini, literally 64 yogini devis, is dedicated to the Shaktism tradition. This is a circular and square temple. Central India has several of such pre-12th century temples. Cunningham assigned the Chausath Yogini temple to the 10th century. Plate XII of the source, published in 1879