Indian Sculptures Series – Puzzling and Remarkable No 2 – A Kushan-period Skanda Nativity Panel The cult of Skanda is…
Indian Sculptures Series – The Puzzling & Remarkable No 1 – A Terracotta Plaque from Ahichchhatra Ahichchhatra (or Ahicchatra) is…
Musical Inscription – As this is a long inscription, therefore its text is provided separate from other inscriptions. सिद्धं I…
Lalitagiri hills, also known as Naltigiri, is located in the Cuttack district of Odisha. Lalitagiri, with Udayagiri and Ratnagiri, constitutes…
Udayagiri, with Lalitagiri and Ratnagiri, constitutes the famous Diamond Triangle of the Buddhist Heritage Sites in Odisha. The hill emerging…
Association of Odisha with Buddhism goes long way back, to the early days of Buddha, as evident by the Buddhist…
Traditions, as told by Xuanzang1, associate Buddha with Sirpur mentioning that he visited here, called an assembly and exhibited his…
Sirpur has more than twenty temples dedicated to Shiva, all in different state of preservation. The main temple of the…
Varahi is the female counterpart of Varaha, the boar incarnation of Vishnu. She is one among the Sapta-matrikas group, the…
The village of Ganeswarpur is situated in the district of Cuttack, around 30 KM from the Cuttack city and 5…