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Baroli temple complex
The eight Pratihara-period Hindu temples in a single walled enclosure at Baroli, Chittorgarh district, Rajasthan, on the Chambal river — a 10th-century Pratihara temple complex that is architecturally one of the most important Rajasthani temple groups. The eight shrines include the Ghateshvara Mahadev (the main Shiva temple with intricate stone carving), the Trimurti, the Mahishamardini, Vamana and others. The complex was commissioned by the Pratihara kings and reflects the regional variant of the Nagara temple tradition in southeastern Rajasthan. Baroli was partially damaged in the 15th-16th centuries by Mughal campaigns; much of the sculpture survives in situ. The complex is sheltered from heavy visitation by its remote location.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Patron dynasty
- Chandela
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 24.920, 75.580
Connections (1)
- Teaching lineageTeli ka Mandir, Gwalior
Baroli on the Chambal and the Teli ka Mandir at Gwalior are two Pratihara groups two hundred kilometres apart, and together they show the range of what that dynasty's masons were doing in the ninth century — Baroli's eight temples in one walled enclosure with a fine Nataraja, and Gwalior's odd thirty-metre hybrid of a southern barrel vault on a northern plan. The Pratiharas held the Gangetic doab against the Arabs and the Rashtrakutas for two centuries and are remembered mainly for these.
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Sources
History of India — Wikipedia
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