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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 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 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 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 ...
Dhuandhar Falls - Picturesque waterfalls on the Narmada river and the ropeway across the river gives a bird eye view of Bhedaghat area. Swarg Dwari; Chausath Yogini Temple, Jabalpur - Located on a hill near the Marble Rocks, the temple was built around 1000 CE by the Kalchuri King Yuvaraja II.
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.
The Chausath Yogini temple in Mitaoli village built by the Kachchhapaghata King Devapala (r. c. 1055 – 1075). [19] The dynasty patronized Shaivism and Vaishnavism, but were tolerant towards Buddhism and Jainism. Several temples were constructed during their reign in Kadwaha. [5] [20]