{"id":443,"date":"2022-09-28T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2022-09-28T13:30:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:30:48","slug":"osian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/osian\/","title":{"rendered":"Osian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/\">Osian<\/a> (also spelt <strong>Osiyan<\/strong>) is an ancient town located in the <strong>Jodhpur<\/strong> District of Rajasthan state in western India. It is an oasis in the Thar Desert. The town is a panchayat village and the headquarters for Osian tehsil. It lies 69 km (43 mi) by road north of the district headquarters at <a href=\"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/\">Jodhpur<\/a>, on a diversion off the main Jodhpur \u2013 Bikaner Highway. The under-construction Amritsar Jamnagar Expressway passes through this town.<\/p>\n<p>Osian is famous as home to the cluster of ruined Hindu and Jain temples dating from the 8th to 12th centuries. The city was a major religious centre of the kingdom of Marwar during the Gurjara Pratihara dynasty. Of the 18 shrines in the group, the <strong>Surya Temple, Sachiya Mata Temple, Katan Bawari<\/strong> and the Jain temple dedicated to Mahavira stands out in their grace and architecture.<\/p>\n<p>The town was a major trading center at least as early as the Gupta period. It maintained this status, while also being a major center of Hinduism and Jainism for hundreds of year. This came to an abrupt end when the town was attacked by the armies of Muhammed of Ghor in 1195. <strong>Osian<\/strong> is a famous tourist destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osian (also spelt Osiyan) is an ancient town located in the Jodhpur District of Rajasthan state in western India. It is an oasis in the Thar Desert. The town is a panchayat village and the headquarters for Osian tehsil. It lies 69 km (43 mi) by road north of the district headquarters at Jodhpur, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rajasthan-tourism","tag-osian-jodhpur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","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=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}