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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 Yogini temple at Mitaoli, on a rocky hilltop, open to the sky Map of Yogini Temples in India. The Yogini temples of India are 9th- to 12th-century roofless hypaethral shrines to the yoginis, female masters of yoga in Hindu tantra, broadly equated with goddesses especially Parvati, incarnating the sacred feminine force. They remained largely ...
The temple has been classified as a Monument of National Importance by the Archaeological Survey of India. [4] Ruins of Yogini temples have been found at other places in and around the territory formerly ruled by the Chandelas or their feudatories, including Badoh, Bhedaghat Dudahi, Lokhari, Hinglajgarh, Mitaoli, Nareshwar, and Rikhiyan. This ...
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 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.
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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]