Chausathi Jogini Temple

Chausathi Jogini Temple is located in a hamlet referred to as Hirapur, 20 km outdoor Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha country of Eastern India. The temple is assumed to be built via the Queen Hiradevi of Bramha dynasty all through the 9th century. It's built in a circular fashion, absolutely put together with blocks of sandstone.

The interior of the round wall has cavities, every housing the statue of a goddess. There are around 56 such idols, made from black granite, inscribed within the wall cavities, centring on the main idol that's the Goddess Kali, who stands on the thoughts of the triumph of coronary heart representing the human head. The temple houses a primary altar Chandi Mandapa which has the closing eight Goddess idols on all 4 facets. Some historians believe that an idol of Maha Bhairava changed into worshiped in the Chandi Mandapa. 64 Joginis Temple is a tantric temple with hypaethral architecture as tantric prayer rituals regarding worship of the bhumandala environment consisting all of the 5 factors of nature hearth, water, earth, sky and ether.