{"id":3216,"date":"2014-09-05T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2014-09-05T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T04:00:09","slug":"teli-ka-mandir-telang-mandir-gwalior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/teli-ka-mandir-telang-mandir-gwalior\/","title":{"rendered":"Teli Ka Mandir , Telang Mandir , Gwalior"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teli Ka Mandir or Telang Mandir<\/strong> was built in 8th Century during the period of King Mihir Bhoj \u00a0<\/strong>.The structure of the temple presents a perfect fusion of the Northern and Southern architectural styles of India. The ‘Shikhar’<\/strong> (spire) of the temple is \u00a0Dravidian<\/strong> in its style, whereas the ornamentation is done in the Nagara style (specific to North India)<\/strong>. Teli Ka mandir \u00a0doesn’t have any ‘Mandap’<\/strong> or pillared hall. The temple comprises a Garbha Griha \u00a0a porch and a doorway<\/strong>.
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Teli Ka Mandir , Telang Mandir Gwalior Fort<\/p><\/div>
\nTeli Ka Mandir<\/strong> is 100 feet \u00a0the tallest and most stunning temple in the \u00a0Gwalior Fort. The temple is actually dedicated to Lord Vishnu<\/strong> in the form of his mount, Garuda. <\/strong>A\u00a0\u00a0honeycomb design with a series of receding pointed arches within an arch. The entrance door has a Toran<\/strong>\u00a0or archway with \u00a0images of river goddesses Yamuna and Ganga, romantic couples, foliation decoration and a Garuda\u00a0. Diamond and lotus designs are seen on the horizontal band at the top of the arch<\/strong>
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Entrance to the Garbha Griha , Teli Ka Mandir<\/p><\/div>
\nWithin the rectangular structure is a shrine with no pillared pavilions \u00a0\u00a0with a Barrel Vaulted<\/strong> or\u00a0\u00a0Valabhi\u00a0<\/strong>roof 25 meters (82\u00a0ft) in height. Figures of amorous couples, coiled serpents, on the doorway one can see the ladies from a royal family sailing in a decorated \u00a0boat , one \u00a0of the maid having an umbrella for shade , above it are coiled snakes \u00a0 . \u00a0At the \u00a0The central position on the doorway is dominated by the figure of flying Garuda.<\/strong>
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Torana or Arched door way at Teli Ka mandir<\/p><\/div>
\nThere are legends about the name of this temple . One says\u00a0\u00a0it was made from donation of a Oil merchant who locally called Teli, given its name Teli’s Temple<\/strong>. The other story says as it was built form princes from Telengana<\/strong> (region in South India) it is called Teli Ka Mandir<\/strong>. One more \u00a0story says, “Teli Ka Mandir”<\/strong> term came as this Rajput Temple<\/strong> according to some legends, Rashtrakuta Govinda III<\/strong> conquered the Fort in 794 AD . He then handled the rites of religious ceremonies and rituals to Telang Brahmins ,<\/strong> it seems to be true because of its fusion of Indo Aryan<\/strong> and Dravidian<\/strong> architecture\u00a0from the Telangana<\/strong> region .<\/strong>
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Teli Ka Mandir or Telang Mandir was built in 8th Century during the period of King Mihir Bhoj \u00a0.The structure of the temple presents a perfect fusion of the Northern and Southern architectural styles of India. The ‘Shikhar’ (spire) of the temple is \u00a0Dravidian in its style, whereas the ornamentation is done in the Nagara … →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,12,16,19,21,22,1],"tags":[258,709,777,810,817,827,956,1127,1387,1633,1767,1941,2243,2285,2348,2814,2817,2819,3009,3097],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-general","category-history","category-monuments","category-pilgrimage","category-religious-belief","category-road-trip","category-uncategorized","tag-barrel-vaulted","tag-dravidian","tag-flying-garuda","tag-ganga","tag-garbha-griha","tag-garuda","tag-gwalior","tag-indo-aryan","tag-king-mihir-bhoj","tag-lord-vishnu","tag-mandap","tag-nagara-style","tag-rajput-temple","tag-rashtrakuta-govinda","tag-river-godess","tag-telang-mandir","tag-telengana","tag-teli-ka-mandir","tag-valabhi","tag-yamuna"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}