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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 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
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 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.
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The Yogini temples are Tantric shrines in India, open to the sky, and usually circular with niches for 64 yoginis. Pages in category "Yogini temples" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
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