Durga (worshipped alongside the Mahayana goddess Marici)SomavamsiKalinga (pidha vimana)
Sacred since
1050 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
late 11th c. images (Somavamsi); shrine rebuilt
Somavamsi
History & significance
A shrine at Ajodhya in Balasore district where a late 11th-century goddess image is worshipped as Durga beside a figure of the Buddhist goddess Marici. The site preserves an unusual mix of tantric, Buddhist and Jain sculpture, including a Buddha in bhumisparsa mudra and a Jain tirthankara.