“Gangeswar” is a small village located in “Kuranga Sasan” panchayat of Cuttack district. The villagers here believe that it was established by the rulers of Ganga dynasty. The Gangas had built three temples dedicated to Lord Shiva namely “Ganga Mani”, “ Labaneswar” & “Swapneswar” in this village.
However, the most interesting shrine of this temple complex is the ancient & beautiful image of lord Krishna that was discovered during an excavation work of the near by lotus pond. Lotus pond
The image of Krushna here is locally called as “Ganga Madhava” & a beautiful temple was built in the year 2013 for the safe keeping of the image.
During the excavation work, the flute of the Krishna image got totally broken by the JCB. A stone architect from Ichhapur village near Adaspur was called to repair the shrine. The flute you are seeing that lord Krishna holds took 10 days of continuous labour by the architect to achieve its shape & costs 27,000 rupees to be constructed. A lady named Mrs. Usha Subramaniam (Wife of a Madrasi industrialist) invested all the funds (about 40 Lakh rupees) to construct the new temple of “Ganga Madhava”. A spiritual Guru named Swami Sudhananda Ji supervised the construction of the temple. Only, the outer boundary of the “Ganga Mani temple complex” was built by the funds raised by Government.
The sacred river Prachi flows just adjacent to the temple complex. Prachi river
Although the temple is the new one but the image of Lord Krushna is very much ancient and kudos to the local villagers and administration who join hands to preserve the image and built a temple for this.
Thanks..
Note: Special thanks to Deepak Ku. Nayak for providing details and photos.
Khambeswari temple, Aska. PC: Debashish Dash https://twitter.com/TheDashDD Goddess Khambhesvari is originally an tribal Goddess worshipped by the tribes of hinterland Odisha. In course of time She was like many other tribal deities given a place in the Hindu pantheon and subsequently she was transformed from a nomadic cult to Shakti cult. Khambhesvari, the Goddess of the Post or Pillar is one of the famous formless autochthonous deities widely worshipped in the hill tracts of Bargarh, Sambalpur, Angul, Dhenkanal, Bolangir, Subarnapur, Boudh, Kalahandi and the Ganjam districts of Odisha. She is worshipped as a manifestation of Shakti in the form of wooden posts or pillars and also through stones. Legends: Khambeswari temple--Aska An interesting legend about the temple in Aska says that once Goddess Khambhesvari appeared in a dream before Khambamuni who lived in the forest and desired that she should be worshipped by the latter. As per the stipulation of Khambamun...
Note: All photographs and the content belongs to Christel Pilz…. Sun Temple Konarka — repair under the British 1903 AD How to save this wonder of Art and devotion of the Artisans? Excerpt from the Times of India article: MAGNIFICENT MYSTERY, by Sandeep Mishra | Jan 15, 2015, “It was between 1900 and 1903, on the order of then lieutenant governor of Bengal J A Baurdilon, that a major excavation was undertaken around the Jagamohan; its interior partitioned with a 15-ft wide stone wall and stuffed with sand. More than a century later, the huge volume of sand is now said to be posing a threat to the Khondalite structure, resulting in cracks and seepage of water. Big stone blocks have also reportedly fallen off, triggering fears that the temple could someday cease to exist. What then needs to be done? On offer are a range of opinions varying from the scientific to the unscientific, the real to the imagined and the reasonable to the absurd. Some favour getting rid of the ...
Life of an explorer never ends. They continue to explore the new sites, with new monuments, with interesting inscriptions. Presenting a beautiful photo blog by Gitanjali Mohanty… Seeing our enthusiasm at the Saptamatrika temple at Jajpur, the locals and elders gave us a tip-off. “Go along the river (Baitarani) and you’ll come to another almost-forgotten Shiv temple. Go there, you will like it”. Now that was all we needed. Off we went on the narrow narrow path along the river. No sign of any temple. We kept on asking the villagers. Not much help. They kept pointing to newer temples. Finally we reached almost a dead-end. On one side the river bed and on the other, a small nondescript village. It was already noon time and it was scorching hot. We see a man coming home with his cows. We ask him “do you know where can we find the Siddheshwara temple?” He gives us a glance and nonchalantly replies” across the river bed and starts walking off” We ask “how to reach there”. He casu...
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