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A yogini. The temple contains stone images of the yoginis; among them are Kamada ("Giver of Sexual Love"), whose image includes a yonipuja, worship of the yoni. [10] [12] The 81 images include 8 Matrikas, Mother goddesses, from an earlier time; [13] one of them is Chandika, who is depicted riding a human corpse in a cremation ground. [14]
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 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 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]
In ancient and medieval texts in Hinduism, a yogini is associated with or directly an aspect of Devi, the goddess. [6] In the 11th century collection of myths, the Kathāsaritsāgara, a yogini is one of a class of females with magical powers, sorceresses sometimes enumerated as 8, 60, 64 or 65. [7] The Hatha Yoga Pradipika mentions yoginis. [8]