Eighty-one yoginis around a central Shiva-Bhairava shrineKalachuri of Tripuricircular yogini temple about 125 ft across with 81 cellsChausath Yogini
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
early 11th c. (Kalachuri)
Kalachuri of Tripuri
History & significance
The largest of the circular yogini temples, set on a hilltop above the Narmada near Jabalpur and built under Yuvaraja II of the Kalachuris; unusually it holds 81 shrine cells rather than the customary 64.