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Khajuraho Temple
Much advertised erotic sculptures of Khajuraho Temples have often led to an unfair and inadequate representation of the essence and spirit of these temples. The beauty of the temples lies in hundreds of carvings that adorn the exteriors of the shrines in this complex, and the beautiful architecture with most elaborate and intricate details with each part offering a maverick slice of human imagination and sensuality. Second hottest destination in India Tourism, Khajuraho Temples were built in isolation amidst dense cover of Khajur or date trees. There are no ruins to suggest existence of palaces, cities or human settlements here along side the venerated temples.
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Situated in Central India, in the state of Madhya Pradesh, Khajurah o has a burgeoning tourism industry today. The temple complex is divided into Western Group of Temples, Eastern Group of Temples, and Southern Group of Temples.The Western Group sports some of the best-adorned and most popular temples and a light and sound show is organized here every evening for the benefit of the tourists. The show tells us about the engaging history and origin of Khajuraho Temples, their unique characteristics in detail, and the mystery and mysticism of the place. This show is one of the featured tourism activities of Golden Triangle and North India tour packages that include Khajuraho in their itineraries.
The vision of the Chandela rulers, who founded these temples in the honor of the Moon God, was to communicate that all facets of life are sacred and divine. The temples celebrated the fact that life is multi-dimensional and stressed on the need of incorporating and integrating every aspect of worldly creations – irrespective of their gender, religions, activities, or moral ideologies. Besides lovemaking and courtship, there are carvings that depict royalty, armies at war, wrestling, marriage processions, music and dancing, meditation and spiritual teachings, divine manifestations of gods and goddesses, and varied plants, animal and human life forms.
As you circumambulate the temple, you see all these and more in eternal poses carved out of stone to indicate the incongruous journey of life. However, the eroticism in a religious precinct is what that scandalized international media most, especially the open deliberate attempts to showcase bestiality and homosexuality. The foreigners find it difficult to accept that even sex, however lurid or immoral, is part of the society and Khajuraho Temples attempt to portray it as one of the myriad aspects of life that we need to learn about and integrate it to the main stream. |
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