Place · sculpture mound · India
Maheshpur, Adinath Tila
A mound at Maheshpur carrying sculpture in the thousands, of about the ninth or tenth century, gathered and enshrined on the site.
- Date
- 9th-10th century CE
- Periods
- Regional Flourishing
- Function
- Archaeology & heritage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 22.895, 83.128
Worth knowing
The name Adinath Tila points to a Jain layer under or beside the Shaiva and Ganesha images, which would make the mound a shared rather than a single-sect site.
Connections (3)
- Companion in the same setDipadih
The two great sculpture fields of the division, Maheshpur in Surguja and Dipadih in Balrampur, both of roughly the ninth to twelfth centuries. Taken together they show the northern hills were not peripheral to early medieval temple building but part of it.
- Companion in the same setDevgarh, Ren river
An Ardhanarishvara linga on the Ren and a sculpture mound at Maheshpur, both of the eighth to tenth centuries, mark the Udaipur block as the densest early medieval ground in Surguja.
- Shared sacred geographyJogibaba Dham, Keshgawan
The Adinath of Maheshpur's mound and the Tirthankara image at Keshgawan are the two clear Jain traces in the division, both now kept by largely non-Jain villages.
Sources
Commissioner, Surguja Division (division-surguja.cg.gov.in), tourist-destination pages, 2026; coordinates supplied by the editor
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