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Chhattisgarh
Two temples, and it helps to know which is which before you arrive.
Local belief holds that the Shivlinga is getting bigger, and devotees who come back each year say it was small once.
Bhoramdeo, wrapped in the forested Maikal hills, is called the 'Khajuraho of Chhattisgarh' — an 11th-century Shiva temple of the Nagvanshi kings whose walls…
Danteshwari Temple in Dantewada (Bastar), Chhattisgarh is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition of…
The village has grown right into this one: houses lean against the hall and ante-chamber, and the eastern wall of the sanctum now doubles as somebody's…
At Dongargarh the goddess Bamleshwari watches from a 1,600-step hilltop — the Badi (elder) Bamleshwari — while her sister shrine, Chhoti Bamleshwari, stands…
Most of the year this is a quiet Kalachuri-period Shiva temple in a village, protected as a monument by the Archaeological Survey of India.
Purani Basti is the old quarter of Raipur, and the Mahamaya temple stands inside it, counted among the thirty-six Shaktipeeths, or thirty-six forts, of…
The name is a family relationship: mama is a mother's brother, bhanja is his nephew, and the story goes that the two of them were handed the job of building…
Pilgrims on the route towards Jagannatha Dham break their journey at Rajim in their thousands every year, which tells you this is not a quiet ruin but a…
