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Brahmeshwar Temple



About 500 m on the right from a turnoff on the Tankapani Road (walkable from Rajarani Temple), the temple has a 3 m lingam enshrined in its sanctum. It is learned that it was built by Queen Kolavati, who got a linga enshrined, in her son's eighteen regnal year at Ekamra. The 11th century brahmeshwar temple with four smaller shrines at the corners, two enclosure walls, the inner one following the sanctuary in its panch ratha plan, and the tank on the southern side between the two, forms an attractive composition. As you enter through a gateway in the high enclosure wall you face a small cloth-covered image of Lakshmi. The sanctuary has a five fold vertical division in the bada; the pabhaga and the varandah have rich carvings. The lower section of the wall is ornamented alternately by khakhara mundis. The central niches of the corner khakhara mundis contain dikpalas, while those of the intermediary ones have mostly different forms of Shiva. Here you can as well see captivating poses such as slender maidens admiring themselves in mirrors and erotic couples. Like the Muktesvara Temple, this temple also has internal embellishments in the jagamohana showing infantry, cavalry, elephants and variety of themes including worship of linga, a preceptor delivering discourse and graceful female figures. The smaller subsidiary temples have same design and architectural elements; however their gandis are left plain.

2 km south of the city centre, Bindu Sagar has the largest group of temples clustered around it. This small artificial lake believed to contain water from every sacred river in India, is held holy by pilgrims bathing in it.

The Lingaraja deity is also brought here for a ritual bath every year during the annual car festival of Bhubaneswar, Ashokastami.





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