{"id":3223,"date":"2016-04-20T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T04:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2016-04-20T10:00:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T04:30:50","slug":"chausath-yogini-temple-morena-gwalior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/chausath-yogini-temple-morena-gwalior\/","title":{"rendered":"Chausath Yogini Temple , Morena ,Gwalior"},"content":{"rendered":"

Built by the Pratihara ruler Maharaj Devapal<\/strong> in the year 1323 AD<\/strong> as per the inscription found here , \u00a0circular temple, built \u00a0over a rock hill , using red and brown-colored\u00a0sandstone<\/strong> \u00a0found abundantly in this area .\u00a0the British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker who designed the Parliament House in 1927, found his inspiration in the temple.<\/strong>\u00a0Once a well-known tantric \u00a0center<\/strong> and some people still perform tantric<\/strong>\u00a0 rituals\u00a0, this place is situated in dry rocky region ,\u00a0located in Rithora area of \u00a0Morena Distt<\/strong>. about 45 km from Gwalior<\/strong> ,
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Chaushath Yogini Mandir , Morena , Gwalior<\/p><\/div>
\nA circular structure of 170 ft radius atop a 100 ft mount<\/strong>, One needs to trek by about 200 steps\u00a0to reach the temple, the path is very well maintained.\u00a0\u00a0The temple has 64 (Chausath) rooms<\/strong> and a big courtyard.\u00a0There is only one small entrance from East<\/strong> , after entering there is a corridor on left and right side , to reach the central platform there is flight of stairs again on the East direction.
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Central Platform Chaushath Yogini Mandir , Gwalior<\/p><\/div>
\nIn the circular courtyard there is a corridor supported by stone pillars<\/strong> one side open space and other side is a row of small 64 rooms with a flat roof , in the center there is a pillared stage with a flat roof , it appears that there were shikhars over all the rooms and the central stage ,\u00a0there are four pedestals found with the names of the Yoginis<\/strong> mentioned on them which confirms it is a Yogini Temple.<\/strong>
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Corridor Chaushath Yogini Temple , Gwalior<\/p><\/div>
\nThere was a time when each chamber \u00a0had an idol of Yogini accompanying Shiva. While some Yogini idols were stolen, some others are adorning Indian museums.
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Fossil Rock , Chaushath Yogini Temple Gwalior<\/p><\/div>
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Built by the Pratihara ruler Maharaj Devapal in the year 1323 AD as per the inscription found here , \u00a0circular temple, built \u00a0over a rock hill , using red and brown-colored\u00a0sandstone \u00a0found abundantly in this area .\u00a0the British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker who designed the Parliament House in 1927, found his … →<\/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":[2,3,12,13,16,22],"tags":[452,508,509,555,788,956,1106,1717,1868,2183,2308,2336,2620,2621,2798,2822,3115],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-architecture","category-history","category-humanity","category-monuments","category-road-trip","tag-central-platform-chaushath-yogini-mandir","tag-chaushath-yogini-mandir","tag-chaushath-yogini-temple-gwalior","tag-corridor-chaushath-yogini-temple","tag-fossil-rock","tag-gwalior","tag-india","tag-maharaj-devapal","tag-morena-distt","tag-pratihara-ruler","tag-replica-of-indian-parliament","tag-rithora","tag-sir-edwin-lutyens","tag-sir-herbert-baker","tag-tantric-rituals","tag-temple","tag-yogini-temple"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","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=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}