High medieval · Hindu · India

Biranchinarayan Temple, Palia

Palia, Bhadrak district, Odisha · 21.0275°, 86.6111°

Surya (Biranchi Narayan)UndeterminedKalinga

Sacred since

1200 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

13th c.; rebuilt early 20th c.

Undetermined

History & significance

A thirteenth-century sun temple at Palia in Bhadrak district, reconstructed in the early twentieth century by a local zamindar. Its sanctum holds a four-faced stone Surya image on a seven-horse chariot, and its eastern doorjambs appear to be reused from a 10th-11th century Shaiva temple.

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