Gadarmal temple | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Hinduism, Jainism |
Deity | Gadarmal devi |
Location | |
Location | Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh |
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Geographic coordinates | 23°55′06″N78°13′21″E / 23.9182813°N 78.2224866°E |
Architecture | |
Style | Pratihara, Māru-Gurjara |
Creator | Pratihara dynasty |
Date established | 8th to 9th century |
Completed | 10th century |
Temple(s) | 1 |
Gadarmal Devi temple is a Hindu and Jain temple at Badoh village of Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh. It was built by a person of Gadaria caste. Also called Gadarmal Temple of the Mothers, it is one of India's yogini temples. It has 42 niches for yogini statues, unusually arranged in a rectangle; it must originally have been hypaethral.
Gadarmal Devi temple dates back to the 7th century A.D., which was built by a Gadaria. [1] The architecture of this yogini temple is a fusion of Pratihara and Parmara styles. It is built similar to Teli ka Mandir in Gwalior fort. This temple houses both Hindu and Jain idols. [2] The temple is made of sandstone with seven small shrines surrounding the main shrine. [3]
It is a 42-niche yogini temple. 18 broken images of the goddesses that once fitted into grooves in the temple platform are preserved from the waist down. It is composed of a rectangular shrine and a tall and massive Shikhara. Vidya Dehejia writes that as a yogini temple, it must once have been hypaethral, open to the sky. [4]
The archaeologist Joseph David Beglar photographed a colossal bas-relief sculpture of a mother and child inside the temple in 1871–2. He called it a figure of Maya Devi and the infant Buddha. [5]