Routes From Roots

 The religious city Orchha that is  123 kms away from Gwalior. where have a unique Lakshmi temple which reveals the uniqueness in its own architecture that from the outside it designates like a triangle in shape and from inside it resembles like a rectangle. This temple has devoted that goddess of wealth and propensity.  This temple has Hindu/Rajputana and Mughal architectural style. Earlier in this temple 5ft gold idol of goddess Lakshmi was installed but recently Some thieves steal the statue of Goddess Laxmi and the thieves were from the local or nearby place of Orchha now there is no idol of goddess Lakshmi.  this temple is not made by stones it is constructed by broken bricks, guar gum, jegri, urad dal and finishing of the walls are done by the white powder.   Some says goddess Lakshmi rides the owl and some believe the owl simply accompanies her so that's why on the front door of the temple, there is an owl face. In the te...

something which shows the majestically heritage of the artisans and the kings of my country which makes me proud because of its uniqueness, idiosyncrasy and the wonderful stories of the paintings in Orchha fort, palace, temples and etc. These wall paintings make me inspire to research more and more about our country heritage paintings which shows the greatness on its own. These paintings are about 400-500 years old. these paintings demonstrate so many different stories of so many generations of India such as in one gallery of Lord Lakshmi temple wall paintings depict and they utterance the full Mahabharata story, in another row paintings dictum the fairytale of Jhansi Ki Rani on the roof ( queen of Jhansi), some Mughal paintings are also there  "some paintings show the full Ramayana,  Scenes from the life of Lord Ram  (the chief deity of Orcha. See Ram Raja Mandir), scenes from Vrin davan’s Lord Krishna are a vibrant display in the palace interiors" said by Anisha...

Bateshwar the beautiful place with the conglomeration of temples, which gesticulates the dacoit and tantric heritage, and the place which shows craftsmanship hard work on stones which shows the Hindu temple architecture style.   K. K. Muhammad is an Indian archaeologist. He was the Regional Director (North) of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and is currently serving as Project Archaeological Director in Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Bhuteswar Maha dev gave a dream to K.K. Muhammad of Bateswar, Morena. Then the restoration of temples started doing, said by the caretaker of Bateswar. The congregation of temples is spread over an area of hectares in the territory of Chambal; it is 25kms from Morena and 40kms from Gwalior. Bateswar temples built in a 9th and 11th century.  Every temple has its specific number which is helping in counting the temples. This place liquidated because of earthquake all temples of Bateswar were gone inside the soil beside one tem...