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Hirapur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha · 20.2250°, 85.8787°
A roofless circular shrine some 25 feet across, built in 864 CE by the Bhauma-Kara queen Hiradevi, its inner wall set with niches for sixty-four yoginis around a central Kali. It is the earliest of India's yogini temples and the model for those that followed.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
Priests relate that Durga took sixty-four forms to defeat a demon, and that the victorious yoginis asked to be remembered in a temple of this shape.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Bhauma-Kara
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