GANGESWARI TEMPLE, VILLAGE-BAYALISBATI, GOP, PURI, ODISHA, INDIA
Note: All photographs and the content belongs to Christel Pilz….
Prachi valley is very famous for the worship of Dvadasa Sambhu, Dvadasa Madhava and Dvadasa Shakti. Narasinghpur is a relatively small village located at just 10kms from famous “Niali Madhava temple”, near Nayahat square, Puri.
Life of an explorer never ends. They continue to explore the new sites, with new monuments, with…
Basudeba is Lord Krishna, an avataar of Lord Bishnu. The temple of Ananta Basudeba was constructed in the thirteenth century, and the complete murties of Krishna, Balarama and Subhadra are worshipped there. Balarama stands under a seven hooded serpent, Subhadra holds…
Gopinath temple , a lesser known Vaishnav monument is situated at the village Kakudia , on Pipili-Jatni road. The uniqueness of this temple is that it is made of sandstone which is locally known as Baulamala Pathars. The magnificent structure reminds us the old proud days of Kalingan…
I travelled to this lesser known area near about two and half years back. The attached map shown below is the route from Cuttack to Maniabandha via Banki. Alternatively you can also go to Maniabandha via Athagarh from Cuttack.
The Chamundas of Bhubaneswar
Chamunda is a fearsome aspect of Shakti, also known as chamundi, chamundeswari and charchika. She is one of the Saptamatruka or seven divine Goddesses. She is also one of the chief Joginis, a group of sixty-four or eighty-one Tantric goddesses. According to legend, Chamunda appeared from the…
Somnath Temple of Jatni can be reached from Bhubaneswar through Old town, Kapileswar area through to Jatni and then straight…
There are lots of Buddhist heritage places within our state which we all are unaware of. So one day, I get the information about Aragarh and after that I decided to visit the site.
