Khajuraho Temples

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Travel story: Khajuraho Temples

Kandariya Temple
The Kandariya Shaivite Temple, the largest and architecturally the most perfect of the Khajuraho collection, was built between 1025 and 1050 at the height of the Chandela art form. It features a total of 872 high relief statues of which 646 disposed in three bands on the outside.

Immediately below, Shiva's symbolic male Linga resting on the female Yoni in the temple's inner sanctum and an example of the triple outside frieze. Further below, four... More