{"id":4134,"date":"2015-12-04T11:50:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T06:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2015-12-04T11:50:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T06:20:13","slug":"osiyan-group-of-templesosiyanrajasthan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/osiyan-group-of-templesosiyanrajasthan\/","title":{"rendered":"Osiyan Group of Temples|Osiyan|Rajasthan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Osiyan a temple town of Rajasthan is a very old city, also mentioned as Ukesa or Upkespur or Uvasisala in old texts books as old as 320 BC to 550 BC , founded by Utpaldeva a Rajput prince from Pratihara dynasty \u00a0it had trade relations with Afghanistan, Central Asia, Persia \u00a0Burma , Srilanka, it was a stop for Camel caravans, famous as pilgrimage center. Situated on Jodhpur -Phalodi highway about 69 kms. from Jodhpur, \u00a0It was a important city for Gurjar Pratihar rulers who won it from the Naga rulers and got the title Nagbhatt . People of Osiyan accepted Jainism from Acharya Ratnaprabhasuri Ji who impressed the people with his supernatural powers.\u00a0Here Jainism is worshiped along with Hindu Goddess Sachiyan Mata and Nag Devta by the people .
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\"Osiyan

Osiyan Group of Temples, Osiyan Rajasthan<\/p><\/div>
\nAround the small city there are group of eleven temples namely Harihara temple, Surya temple, \u00a0Vishnu and Pipala Devi .
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\"Kirtimukha

Kirtimukha at main entrance, Osiyan Group of Temples, Osiyan Rajasthan<\/p><\/div>
\nMain entrance is decorated with Lord Ganesh and Kirtimukha ( face of fame) are important sign of any Sanatan temple in Indian and South Asian temples, according to Skandha Puran , Lord Shiva created this monster and he ate willingly his body as per orders from Lord Shiva.
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\"The

The Mandap ,Garbha griha door, Osiyan Group of Temples, Osiyan Rajasthan<\/p><\/div>
\nSimple and well decorated mandap with dancing apsras, Nags (Snakes) coils and knots \u00a0and floral carvings all over the pillars and beams.
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\"Beautiful

Beautiful carved Ceiling, Naglok, Osiyan Group of Temples<\/p><\/div>
\nThe ceiling is carved with snakes knotted with each other and hood with a human face and folding hands in praying position or welcoming the Gods , evidence of Naga worshiping in this area .
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\"Naglok

Naglok on walls near ceiling, Osiyan group of Temples, Osiyan Rajasthan<\/p><\/div>
\nThe side inner wall is full of carvings with men and women playing music and dancing .
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\"Dancing

Dancing and playing musical instruments, Osiyan Group of Temple<\/p><\/div>
\nThe outer wall of this small temple is full of carvings of Lord Ganesh, Riddhi, Siddhi, Lord Vishnu’s Vaman avtar taking his step to heavens , Raja Bali watching him.
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\"Vaman

Vaman Awatar step reaching the heavens, lord Ganesha, Ridhhi and Siddhi , Osiyan Group of Temples<\/p><\/div>
\nOn the side wall panels a beautiful carved Lord Vishnu’s avtar Narsimha killing Hirnakashap and one can see Bhak Prahlad bowing on ground in respect for the lord .
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\"Narshimha

Narshimha awatar killing Hirnakashyap, Bhakt Prahlad bowing down to Lord, Osyian Group of Temples, Osiyan , Rajasthan<\/p><\/div>
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Osiyan a temple town of Rajasthan is a very old city, also mentioned as Ukesa or Upkespur or Uvasisala in old texts books as old as 320 BC to 550 BC , founded by Utpaldeva a Rajput prince from Pratihara dynasty \u00a0it had trade relations with Afghanistan, Central Asia, Persia \u00a0Burma , Srilanka, it was … →<\/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":[3,16,18,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-monuments","category-people","category-pilgrimage","category-rajasthan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134","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=4134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}