Overview

  • Features: One of the last Chandela temples to be built in Khajuraho
  • Opening Times: 6am to 6pm, daily
  • Best Time to Visit: Late October to early March
  • Duration: 20 to 30 mins
  • Travelled By: Foot
  • Cost: Free
  • Address: Sevagram, Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, India
  • Type: Temple

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What We Liked

Well preserved temple.

What We Disliked

No stand out carvings.

Summary

Located on the outskirts of Khajuraho, about 1 km southwest of the Jain temple enclosure, Duladeo Temple can be reached via a dirt track from the city centre. Part of the Southern Group of temples, this is one of the last of the Chandela temples to be built. Dedicated to Shiva, the temple lacks the quality of carvings found in earlier temples in Khajuraho.

Duladeo Temple Khajuraho

 

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Located on the outskirts of Khajuraho, about 1 km southwest of the Jain temple enclosure, Duladeo Temple can be reached via a dirt track from the city centre. Part of the Southern Group of temples, this is one of the last of the Chandela temples to be built dating to AD 1100-1150. Dedicated to Shiva, the temple stands on the banks of the Khudar Stream on open land facing east. The setting, attractive at sunset, lacks the overall ambience of the Western Group but the backdrop of the Vindhya Mountains is impressive.

 

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Built at a time when temple architecture was already in decline, the temple lacks the quality of carvings found in earlier temples in Khajuraho. Its relatively wooden, repetitious sculptures, such as those of Shiva, suggest that Khajuraho’s temple builders had passed their artistic peak by this point, although they had certainly lost none of their zeal for eroticism.

 

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20 elaborately crowned and ornamented apsarsas, flying vidyadharas, crocodile-mounted ashtavasu figures, and sculptures of overornamented and stereotypically endowed characters in relatively shallow relief decorate the interior. The figurines carved in the temple have soft expressive features unlike other temples. The walls have a display of carved celestial dancers (apsaras) in erotic postures and other figures.As at Parshvanath Temple, the walls of Duladeo Temple feature a narrow band of sculptures that depict the celestial garland carriers and musicians in attendance at the wedding of Shiva and Parvati. The shrine door and mandapa ceiling have some fine carving while the linga has 11 rows of 100 lingas.

 

Getting to Duladeo Temple

Duladeo Temple is best reached from the Eastern Group of temples. After visiting the Jain enclosure, head west to the main street crossing before turning south. At the end of the road, before Khudar River, Duladeo Temple can be seen on the right.

 

All photos on this page are sourced from Wikipedia.

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