Khajuraho

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Description

The Duladeo temple, also called Kunwar Math, is notable for being the latest temple of Khajuraho. Dedicated to Shiva, it is nirandhara temple and consists of a sanctum, vestibule, maha-mandapa and porch. On plan and in design, it has some features common with the developed medieval temples of the Deccan and western India, though its scheme of ornamentation is typical of Khajuraho. While its sikhara is of the usual developed form, clustered round by three rows of minor sikharas, its maha-mandapa shows some peculiarities of design and decoration. The maha-mandapa hall is remarkably large and octagonal showing twenty apsaras brackets, grouped in bunches of two or three an butting against its corbelled circular ceiling. Even in respect o plastic style and decoration, theDuladeo has many individual features which distinguish it from the rest of the Khajuraho temples. While the dancing apsaras of its interior and the flying Gandharva’son the top row of its facades show vigorous tension and dynamic movement, its elaborately-crowned and heavily ornamented apsaras forming the brackets of the maha-mandapaand porch and the river-goddesses of the doorway, standing under umbrellas are decorated with pompons. While some figures on this temple are of an exceptional artistic merit, the plastic treatment has on the whole, become rigid, and, in many cases, lacks depth of relief, which is evident on a majority of the apsara-figures of the  exterior. On the basis of palaeography and style the temple is datable to circa C.E. 1000-1150.

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Approach

•  By Air : Khajuraho
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Facilities

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Notification

Preliminary	Pre PDF	Final	Final PDF
F.3-66/52 A2, dt. 4/11/1952 vide SRO 1999 pub dt. 6/12/1952		F.3-66/52 A2 SRO 865, dt. 30/4/1953

Location

Locality	Tehsil	District	State
Khajuraho	Rajnagar	Chhatarpur	M.P.