Ranipur Jharial, Chausathi Yogini mandir and Shiv Mandir

64 YOGINI

JHARIAL THE SHIVA TEMPLE (SOMA TIRTH)

It is a beautiful temple and ancient place At Western Odisha , Balangir distric,Titla garh, Sindhekela

it is one of the ancient Yogini temple dedicated to 64 Yogini it appears to be an early temple from soon after 900 AD and now it situated as a signification of our ancient architect and art here you can find total 50 temple and the dancing yogini image.

mother goddesses, among the Yoginis. 14 of the Yoginis are animal-headed; among them can be seen goddesses with the heads of a cat, an elephant, a snake, a horse, a buffalo, an antelope, and seemingly also of a leopard and a sow. The leopard-headed goddess is holding up a human corpse, suggestive of the corpse rituals (shiva sadhana) of the Yogini cult. The absence of haloes or attendant figures as at later Yogini temples suggests that this temple was built The 19th century archaeologist Alexander Cunningham described two further Yogini images. One, uniquely, had the attributes of the Sun-god, Surya; she had two arms, a lotus flower in each hand, and seven horses. The other (now surviving only from the knees down) was dancing on a reclining male; she had 6 or 8 arms, and was depicted pulling her mouth open wide; she held a skull-cup, a kettle-drum, and a sword.

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