Duladeo Temple

Khajuraho


The Duladeo Temple, dedicated to Shiva and set among well-tended gardens just above a small river, is Khajuraho's youngest temple, dating to 1100–50. Its relatively wooden, repetitive carvings suggest that Khajuraho’s sculptors had passed their artistic peak by this point, although they had certainly lost none of their zeal for eroticism.


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