{"id":181,"date":"2022-04-29T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T09:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2022-04-29T09:58:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T09:58:27","slug":"khajuraho-group-of-temples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/khajuraho-group-of-temples\/","title":{"rendered":"Khajuraho Group Of Temples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/\">Khajuraho Group of Monuments<\/a> is a collection of Hindu and Jain temples in Madhya Pradesh&#8217;s Chhatarpur district, some 175 kilometres (109 miles) southeast of Jhansi. They have been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The temples are known for their sexual sculptures and nagara-style architectural symbolism.<\/p>\n<p>The Chandela dynasty erected the majority of the temples in <a href=\"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/\">Khajuraho<\/a> between 950 and 1050. According to historical accounts, the <strong>Khajuraho temple<\/strong> complex contained 85 temples scattered over 20 square kilometres by the 12th century. Only roughly 25 temples have remained, covering a total area of six square kilometres. The Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, one of the few remaining temples, is adorned with a plethora of sculptures with complex workmanship, symbolism, and expressiveness typical of ancient Indian art.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Khajuraho group of temples<\/strong> were built together but were dedicated to two religions, Hinduism and Jainism, suggesting a tradition of acceptance and respect for diverse religious views among Hindus and Jains in the region<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Khajuraho Group of Monuments is a collection of Hindu and Jain temples in Madhya Pradesh&#8217;s Chhatarpur district, some 175 kilometres (109 miles) southeast of Jhansi. They have been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The temples are known for their sexual sculptures and nagara-style architectural symbolism. The Chandela dynasty erected the majority of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}