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The Kunwar Math
| | The Kunwar Math | | Built in circa AD 1100-1150, this Shaiva Temple, traditionally known as the temple of Duladeo or 'Kunwar Math', stands about a kilometre south of the Khajuraho village. It is situated about half a mile south of the Ghantai Temple and the same distance southwest of the Jain group of temples including the Parsvanath temple.
Rightly said, if erotica can turn into sublime, it is at Khajuraho.
The temple is incompletely preserved and has been extensively repaired and restored.
While some figures are of exceptional artistic merit on this temple, the plastic treatment has on the whole become stiff and in many cases lacks depth of relief, which is evident on a majority of the figures of nymphs of the exterior. The iconography of this temple also shows some distinctive traits. The Ashtavasu figures are invariably depicted here with a crocodile mount in place of the usual bull, while the 'dikpalas', 'yama' and 'Nirriti' wear their raised curls in a stylised fan shape. The facades of this temple carry tedious repetitions of the images of standing Shiva and Shiva-Parvati.
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