Place · Chandela hill fort
Ajaygarh Fort
A Chandela fort on a flat-topped Vindhyan hill with a single stepped approach, holding ruined temples, tanks cut in the rock and a large collection of loose Chandela sculpture — the dynasty's last refuge after Kalinjar and Mahoba were lost.
Dynasties & capitalsJain
- Function
- Military & resistance
- Patron dynasty
- Chandela
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 24.897, 80.257
Worth knowing
The hill carries Jain images alongside the Shaiva and Vaishnava ones, cut in the same decades as Khajuraho forty kilometres away. Ajaygarh's sculpture was catalogued by Cunningham and a good deal of it has since been stolen from the hilltop, which is unguarded.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Ajaigarh”. Epigraphia Indica for the Chandela and Pratihara inscriptions; Devangana Desai, The Religious Imagery of Khajuraho (1996).
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