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SHANKARACHARYA TEMPLE ANCIENT UNIVERSITY:

This temple is in Srinagar atop a hill known as Takht-e-Sulei- NALANDA
man. The temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva. It is said that the
temple was built by King Ashoka's son. It has undergone many Founded by the Gupta Dynasty between 5th
and the 12th centuries CE, it was the centre
repairs over the years.
of scholarship and Buddhist studies located in
Bihar today.
DIVINE DHAMS: KEDARNATH Gunav Seth, VIII D, Delhi
Public School, Sonepat;
AND BADRINATH Abha Rawat, IX, Balwant
Rai Mehta Vidya Bhawan,
Kedarnath Temple in Uttrakhand is made from ASMA, GK II, New Delhi;
interlocking stone slabs. It has an irregular Shaurya Gupta, VI, Swami
Vivekanand Public School,
shaped lingam on a cylindrical pedestal. Jagadhri, Yamunanagar
The Badrinath Temple is one of the Panch
h Badris made out of stone with carvings on
E walls and pillars. KAMAKHYA LEGEND
Illustration by: Vishwas, Raksha
arakhand Anusandhan Vidyalaya, Vishwas, Raksha Anusandhan Vidyalaya, Dehradun
T
L SUN TEMPLE Dehradun This temple was built in the 8th century by the
Mleccha Dynasty.
RNATH AND M
DRINATH It
It is dedicated to
Arunachal goddess Sati and
Sikkim Pradesh
is one of the 108
shaktipeethas of
Uttar Pradesh Assam India.
AMBARI RUINS Nagaland
SARNATH KAMAKHYA TEMPLE
DEOGARH TEMPLE
Bihar Meghalaya Manipur
BARABAR CAVES
TIMELESS KHAJURAHO
MAHABODHI TEMPLE
Tripura
Jharkhand UNAKOTI Mizoram Most of these temples in Madhya Pradesh were built by the
West Bengal
desh BARDHAMAN Chandela Dynasty. They were declared a UNESCO World
UPA TEMPLES Heritage Site in 1986. They
HO are also one of the seven
Chhattisgarh
Odisha wonders of India.
UDAYGIRI AND
KHANDAGIRI Rittika, VIII, C, Saraswati
LINGARAJ TEMPLE Public School, Jagadhri,
Yamunanagar , Ananya K.,
IX A, Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir,
Ernakulam, Kochi; K.V.D.
ngana Bhavani, IX, Sri Prakash
ND PILLAR Vidyaniketan, Pendurthi,
MPLE Vishakhapatnam Illustration by: Mohit Singh, VII C, Delhi Public School,
Mandla Road, Jabalpur
adesh TOWERING LINGARAJ AGELESS AIHOLE
ATHI
ONDA The Lingaraj Temple in Bhubaneshwar was Under the Chalukyas, Aihole in north Karnataka emerged
built in the 11th as the site of experimentation with temple architecture.
century by King This resulted in 16
Jajati Keshari of types of free-standing
Soma Vansh. It is temples and four types
u the largest temple of rock-cut shrines.
URAM in the city, and
PLES Kavya R. Patil, VII A, KLES’
is made in the
International School, Belagavi
Kalinga style of
architecture.

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