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Jaipur
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Loading…Active Shiva temple on the Mahanadi bank at Sirpur, built with older Hindu, Buddhist and Jain carved stones.
Gandheshwar is a working Shiva temple on the bank of the Mahanadi at Sirpur, reached by stone steps from the river. Its walls reuse recovered pieces with Hindu, Buddhist and Jain carvings, including an 8th-century inscribed slab dedicated to the Buddha.
Within 1 km of Gandheshwar Temple.
Excavated Buddhist monastery at Sirpur with a seated Buddha and carved door frames.
Largest temple complex at Sirpur: a white-stone terrace with five shrines, excavated in 2006-07.
7th-century brick temple at Sirpur, one of the finest early brick temples in India, with an ASI museum on site.
Vishnu temple of about 1111 AD near the Indravati-Narangi confluence, 4 km east of Chitrakote Falls.
Old temple at Rajim near the Rajiv Lochan Temple.
Old temple in Adbhar village, Janjgir-Champa district.
11th-century Shiva temple near Kawardha, known as the Khajuraho of Chhattisgarh for its carvings.
Group of three Jain temples in Arang, east of Raipur, from the 9th-11th centuries.
Forest Shiva shrine near Gariaband around a huge natural rock linga that locals say keeps growing.
Old Shiva temple in Barsur named after the uncle and nephew who, legend says, built it in one day.
Early Vishnu temple in Rajim, dated to about the 7th-8th century, centre of the yearly Rajim Kumbh fair.