Ancient India Era (प्राचीन भारतीय संस्कृति एवं शिल्पकला)

Bateshwar temples (or Batesara, Bateśvar) - Padavali, Chambal Valley, District Morena district (Madhya Pradesh). Also, situated about 30 kilometers from the city of Morena Madhya Pradesh, India. Temples built between 6th to 9th century. According to Madhya Pradesh Directorate of Archaeology, They are a group of nearly 200 sandstone Hindu temples and their ruins in north Madhya Pradesh in post-Gupta, early Gurjar-Pratihara style of North Indian temple architecture.  According to Michael Meister, an art historian and a professor specializing in Indian temple architecture, the earliest temples in the Bateshwar group near Gwalior are likely from the 750-800 CE period. the Bateshwar site illustrates the conception and construction of "Mandapika shrine" concept in central India. According to the Cunningham's report of 1882, "confused assemblage of more than one hundred temples of various sizes, but mostly small". The largest standing temple was of Shiva and t...

The Dashavatara Temple is a mid 5th century (1500 years old) Vishnu Hindu temple situated at Deogarh, Uttar Pradesh in the Betwa River India.It has a simple, one cell square plan and is one of the earliest Hindu stone temples still surviving today.  The Dashavatara temple had numerous plinth panels of about 2.5 feet by 2 feet each, with friezes related to secular life and themes of Hinduism. Some of these reliefs were found during excavations at the site, some recovered nearby and identified by their location, the material of construction and the style. Many are lost. Built in the Gupta Period, the Dashavatara Temple at Deogarh demonstrates the lavish Gupta style architecture. Archaeologists have inferred that it is the earliest known Panchayatana temple in North India. The Dashavatara temple is locally known as  Sagar marh , which literally means "the temple on the tank", a name it gets from the square water pool cut into the rock in front. Benjamín Preciad...

The Khajuraho Group of Monuments is a group of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain temples in Madhya Pradesh, India.  They are one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India.  Khajuraho is known for its ornate temples that are the spectacular piece of human imagination, artistic creativity, magnificent architectural work and their erotic sculptures.  The 10th-century Bhand Deva Temple near (Ramgarh crater) in Rajasthan was built in the style of the Khajuraho monuments and is often referred to as 'Little Khajuraho'.  Mahatma Gandhi wanted it buried under earth so nobody could be tempted by the beautiful statues. We are grateful to Rabindranath Tagore who prevented Gandhi from doing such a thing. He said, “Leave the temples as they are..” Chronicled records : - The first recorded mention of the Khajuraho temples is in the accounts of Abu Rihan al Biruni in AD 1022 and the Arab traveler Ibn Battuta in AD 1335. Local tradition lists 85 temples in Khajuraho out of wh...

Hi Everyone! Welcome to the first blog post of Ancient India! Here I am going to share details about ancient Indian art, cultures, architecture, history, places, fort, palaces. India is such a vast country with so many culture and diversity.  Varanasi also known  as kashi a nd benaras  situated in the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh is the most sacred city in India and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. indicating that the holy town has been a continuous human settlement since the days of the Indus Valley Civilization around 6000 years ago. (Lord Shiva in Nataraj posture) Patachithra Paintings(Originated from the fifth century in religious hubs like Puri and Konark) ...