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Jaipur
Rajasthan
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Large Buddhist monastic site of the 7th-12th centuries with two monasteries, stupas and shrines, part of the Diamond Triangle.
Udayagiri in Jajpur district (not the Jain caves of Bhubaneswar) was a major Buddhist learning centre with two monasteries, Simhaprastha Mahavihara and Madhavapura Mahavihara, plus stupas and terraced shrines. Much of it was excavated only from 1985. Ratnagiri is about 10 km away.
One of the oldest Buddhist sites of Odisha, with monasteries, stupas, chaityas and relic caskets, and a site museum.
Hilltop Buddhist monastery complex of the 5th-13th centuries with hundreds of votive stupas and an ASI site museum.
Eleventh-century temple of red-gold sandstone with no presiding deity, known for its carved celestial maidens and dikpalas.
Rock-cut Jain caves on twin hills, carved in the 2nd century BCE under King Kharavela, with the Hathigumpha inscription.
White peace pagoda on Dhauli hill near the Kalinga War battlefield, beside Ashoka's 3rd-century BCE rock edicts.
Eleventh-century sandstone temple of Shiva as Harihara, the largest temple of Bhubaneswar, with a spire close to 180 ft.
Thirteenth-century temple shaped as the chariot of the Sun god, a UNESCO World Heritage Site near the sea at Konark.
Twelfth-century Kalinga-style temple of Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra; one of the four Char Dham shrines and the heart of Puri.