Jagadambi Temple     other sites in Khajuraho    Khajuraho, India

                                    
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Jagdambi Temple shares the same plinth as Kandariya temple to the south.  It is one of most finely decorated temples at Khajuraho, with numerous erotic carvings.  In the temple "womb", the griha, is an enormous image of the goddess Devi, though it was probably originally designed as a Vishnu temple.

Bibliography:

All images copyright 2001 Kaye Yeo Ahn, MArch student, Yale University, and Professor Robert D. Fiala of Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska

Michell, George.  The Hindu Temple
  Harper and Row, Publishers.  New York. 1977

Tadgell, Christopher.  The History of Architecture in India
  Phaidon Press Limited.  Singapore.  1998

Narain, L.A. Khajuraho: Temples of Ecstasy
  Lustre Press.  New Delhi.  1986

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