🕉️🚩🇮🇳⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Astasambhu Siva Temples is a collection of 8 Hindu temples dedicated to Lord Siva located in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha, India.⠀ ⠀ ⠀ In the Uttaresvara Siva Temple precinct there are eight temples of identical size and dimension locally known as Astasambhu. Ashta means eight and Sambhu refers to #LordShiva. Five of them are arranged in one alignment also known as Panchu Pandava. The temple is under the private ownership and is maintained by the Ratnakara Gargabatu and family. According to architectural features like bada division and pabhaga mouldings, this temple was built around 10th Century A.D. This is a building made up of stones and its typology is Rekha Deul. The temple is surrounded by Godavari tank in the east, Uttaresvara Siva Temple compound wall in west, and Bindusagar tank in south beyond the compound wall. The temple has an east facing shrine.⠀ ⠀ ⠀ The temple has a square vimanam (shrine) measuring 2.45 metres with a frontal porch of 0.53 metres. Its pancharatha(five chariots) as distinguished by a central raha and a pair of anuratha and kanika pagas on either sides of the raha. On elevation, the vimana is of rekha order that measures 5.72 metres in height from pabhaga to kalasa. From bottom to the top the temple has a bada, gandi and mastaka. With three fold divisions of the bada the temple has a trianga bada measuring 1.72 metres. At the bottom the pabhaga has four base mouldings of khura, kumha, pata, basanta that measures 0.47 metres. Jangha measures 0.90 metres and baranda measuring 0.35 metres thick has three mouldings. The gandi measuring 3.00 metres in height is devoid of any decoration and mastaka measures 1.00 metres with components like beki, amlaka, khapuri and kalasa.⠀ ⠀ Rest in comments 👇⠀ ⠀ 📸 DM for credits⠀ ⠀ Feel 🆓 to share and bookmark 🔖⠀ ⠀ #odishaigers #odisha #odishagram #odishatourism #odishadiaries #odisha_igers #moodisha #odishabuzz #Bhubaneswar #incredibleindia #templesofindia #templelife #templearchitecture #templetales #templefacts #know_temples #reclaimtemples #templegram #AstasambhuSivaTemple #sanatandharma #hinduculture #templehopping #hindutemples #hindurashtra #harharmahadev #swipeleft (at Astasambhu Siva Temples) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEI_suvlq4p/?igshid=hj89wo9wre1h
