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Kankali Devi Temple, Tigawa

तिगवा

Tigawa, Katni, Madhya Pradesh · 23.6901°, 80.0664°

Vishnu, with Narasimha in the sanctum and Narayana in the porticoGupta—

Sacred since

400 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

c. 400-425 (Gupta)

Gupta

History & significance

One of the oldest standing Hindu temples in India, the survivor of a group of some thirty-six stone shrines at Tigawa. Railway contractors quarried most of the group for building material in the late nineteenth century until villagers petitioned a British official to stop the demolition.

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