Bhimesvara Bisrama ghara

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Bhimesvara Bisrama ghara
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Religion
Affiliation Hinduism
Location
Location Bhubaneswar
State Orissa
Country India
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Location in Orissa
Geographic coordinates 20°14′22″N85°49′27″E / 20.23944°N 85.82417°E / 20.23944; 85.82417 Coordinates: 20°14′22″N85°49′27″E / 20.23944°N 85.82417°E / 20.23944; 85.82417
Elevation38 m (125 ft)
Bhimesvara Bisrama ghara in Bhubaneswar Bhimesvara Bisrama ghara.jpg
Bhimesvara Bisrama ghara in Bhubaneswar

Bhimesvara Bisrama ghara is located in the Bhimesvara temple precinct in the Kapila Prasad, Housing Board Colony, Bhimatangi, Bhubaneswar. It is facing towards north. It has pyramidal superstructure.

Temple structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities

A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice. It is typically used for such buildings belonging to all faiths where a more specific term such as church, mosque or synagogue is not generally used in English. These include Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism among religions with many modern followers, as well as other ancient religions such as Ancient Egyptian religion.

Bhubaneswar Metropolis in Odisha, India

Bhubaneswar is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Odisha. It is the centre of economic, educational and cultural importance of East India.

Contents

Location

Lat. 20° 14’ 22" N, Long. 85° 49’ 27" E, Elev. 124 ft

Traditions & legends

Locals legend associates the precinct with the Pandava brothers.

Pandava Sons of king Pandu in the Mahabharata, all married to Draupadi

In the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic text, the Pandavas are the five acknowledged sons of Pandu, by his two wives Kunti and Madri, who was the princess of Madra. Their names are Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva. All five brothers were married to the same woman, Draupadi.

Ownership

Bhimesvara Mandira Parichalana Samiti

Age

Property Type

Property use

Abandoned/ in use: In use.

Significance

Cultural significance: Sivaratri, Kartika Purnima, Dola Purnima are performed.

Physical description

Surrounding: The Rest house is surrounded by another rest house in west at a distance of 1.35 metres, compound wall on east at a distance of 4.00 metres, Arjunesvara temple on north within a distance of 1.85 metres and a modern structure in south at a distance of 1.50 metres.

Orientation: The Rest house is facing towards north.

Architectural features (Plan & Elevation)

On plan, the structure has a square vimana measuring 4.00 square metres, with a frontal porch measuring 2.00 metres in length. On elevation, the vimana is in pidha order that measures 5.03 metres in height from pabhaga to mastaka. From bottom to the top the temple has a bada, gandi and mastaka. With fivefold divisions of the bada the temple has a panchanga bada measuring 2.53 metres in height. Pabhaga measures 0.49 metres, tala jangha 0.62 metres, bandhana 0.23 metres, upara jangha 0.61 metres 42 and baranda 0.59 metres. The gandi measures 2.00 metres and mastaka 0.50 metres.

Raha niche & Parsvadevatas

No raha niche or parsvadevatas on the temple walls.

Decorative features

Laterite A soil and rock type rich in iron and aluminium

Laterite is a soil and rock type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by intensive and prolonged weathering of the underlying parent rock. Tropical weathering (laterization) is a prolonged process of chemical weathering which produces a wide variety in the thickness, grade, chemistry and ore mineralogy of the resulting soils. The majority of the land area containing laterites is between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

Lime (material) calcium-containing inorganic mineral

Lime is a calcium-containing inorganic mineral composed primarily of oxides, and hydroxide, usually calcium oxide and/ or calcium hydroxide. It is also the name for calcium oxide which occurs as a product of coal seam fires and in altered limestone xenoliths in volcanic ejecta. The word lime originates with its earliest use as building mortar and has the sense of sticking or adhering.

State of preservation

Grade (A/B/C)

Date of Documentation

15 October 2006

Documentor

Dr Sadasiba Pradhan and team

Reference and notes

    Maps/Plan/Drawings

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