{"id":37232,"date":"2016-08-20T08:42:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T06:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magikindia.com\/?p=37232"},"modified":"2020-04-30T16:45:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:45:46","slug":"bhojpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magikindia.com\/en\/bhojpur\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhojpur (Bhojeshwar Temple)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bhojeshwar is an uncompleted Hindu temple in Bhojpur village, 28km from Bhopal. It is dedicated to Shiva and houses a 2m lingam, one of the tallest in India. A huge, rough, blocky structure from afar, the temple reveals its delicacy as you approach. It is one more monument in India’s long list of architectural wonders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The huge Shiva-Lingam of the\u00a0Bhojeshwar Temple<\/p><\/div>\n

It is thought that construction of the temple began in the 11th century, in the reign of Paramara Bhoja. It was abandoned for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n

The temple has no mandaba<\/em> or pillar hall adjoining the garbhagriha<\/em> or sanctum, and has a rectilinear roof instead of the usual curvilinear shikara<\/em> tower. This architectural simplicity has prompted a number of theories about the function of the place.<\/p>\n

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Some researchers think it was a funerary monument. Medieval texts describe this kind of building as commemorative temples, built over a person’s remains and seen as a vehicle for their ascension to the heavens. These temples were called svargarohana-prasada<\/em>, “temples commemorating ascension to the svarga<\/em> (heaven)”.<\/p>\n

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